ARPHA Preprints, doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e153920
ERGA-BGE genome of Acomys minous (Bate, 1906): the Crete spiny mouse, endemic to the island of Crete, Greece
Petros Lymberakis‡, Danae Karakasi§|, Manolis Papadimitrakis§, Rita Monteiro¶, Astrid Böhne¶, Rosa Fernández#, Nuria Escudero¤, Jean-Marc Aury«, Alice Moussy«, Corinne Cruaud«, Karine Labadie«, Sophie Mangenot«, Caroline Belser», Lola Demirdjian», Swati Sinha˄, Leanne Haggerty˄, Fergal Martin˄, Patrick Wincker», Pedro H. Oliveira», Tom Brown˅¦‡ University of Crete, School of Sciences and Engineering, Heraklion, Greece§ Natural History Museum of Crete, School of Sciences and Engineering, University of Crete, Greece, Heraklion, Greece| Department of Biology, School of Sciences and Engineering, University of Crete, Vassilika Vouton, Heraklion, GR-70013, Greece, Heraklion, Greece¶ Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change - Museum Koenig Bonn, Adenauerallee 127, 53113 Bonn, Germany, Bonn, Germany# Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC - Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain¤ Metazoa Phylogenomics Lab, Institute for Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF). Passeig marítim de la Barceloneta 37-49. 08003 Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Spain« Genoscope, Institut François Jacob, CEA, CNRS, Univ Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, 91057, France, Paris, France» Génomique Métabolique, Genoscope, Institut François Jacob, CEA, CNRS, Univ Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, 91057 Evry, France, Paris, France˄ European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge, United Kingdom˅ Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research (BeGenDiv), Koenigin-Luise-Str 6-8, 14195 Berlin, Germany, Berlin, Germany¦ Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Alfred-Kowalke-Straße 17, 10315 Berlin, Germany, Berlin, Germany
Corresponding author: Tom Brown ( brown@izw-berlin.de ) © Petros Lymberakis, Danae Karakasi, Manolis Papadimitrakis, Rita Monteiro, Astrid Böhne, Rosa Fernández, Nuria Escudero, Jean-Marc Aury, Alice Moussy, Corinne Cruaud, Karine Labadie, Sophie Mangenot, Caroline Belser, Lola Demirdjian, Swati Sinha, Leanne Haggerty, Fergal Martin, Patrick Wincker, Pedro H. Oliveira, Tom Brown. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Lymberakis P, Karakasi D, Papadimitrakis M, Monteiro R, Böhne A, Fernández R, Escudero N, Aury J-M, Moussy A, Cruaud C, Labadie K, Mangenot S, Belser C, Demirdjian L, Sinha S, Haggerty L, Martin F, Wincker P, Oliveira PH, Brown T (2025) ERGA-BGE genome of Acomys minous (Bate, 1906): the Crete spiny mouse, endemic to the island of Crete, Greece. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e153920 |  |
Abstract
The Acomys minous reference genome offers a crucial resource for uncovering phylogenetic relationships within the genus and its complex phylogeographic history . The entirety of the genome sequence was assembled into 20 contiguous chromosomal pseudomolecules. This chromosome-level assembly encompasses 2.35 Gb, composed of 297 contigs and 113 scaffolds, with contig and scaffold N50 values of 29.3 Mb and 113 Mb, respectively.
Keywords
Acomys minous, genome assembly, European Reference Genome Atlas, Biodiversity Genomics Europe, Earth Biogenome Project, Muridae family, Crete spiny mouse, Agathopontikos