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Table 1 Representative assembly metrics for sequenced Galliform genomes

From: The quail genome: insights into social behaviour, seasonal biology and infectious disease response

Common name

Assembled version

N50 contig (Mb)

N50 scaffold (Mb)

Total assembly size (Gb)

Assembled chromosomes

Japanese quail

Coturnix japonica 2.0

0.511

3.0

0.93

33

Japanese quail

Wu et al. PMID: 29762663

0.027

1.8

0.90

30

Chicken

Gallus gallus 5.0

2.895

6.3

1.20

34

Scaled quail

ASM221830v1

0.154

1.0

1.01

NA

Northern bobwhite

ASM59946v2

0.056

2.0

1.13

NA

Turkey

Turkey 5.0

0.036

3.8

1.13

33

  1. All species-specific assembly metrics derived from the NCBI assembly archive