High-Quality Genome Assembly of the White King Pigeon for Genetic Reference of Chinese Market Pigeon Breeds.

Authors

Guang Yang, Tao Zeng, Lizhi Lu, Wenwu Xu, Chunqin Wu, Haiying Li, Yong Tian, Tiantian Gu, Li Chen, Yibo Zong, Yuguang Chang, Liyan Dong

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Scientific data. Jun 18, 2026. Epub Jun 18, 2026.

Abstract

This study was conducted to generate a high-quality chromosome-level genome assembly of a female White King pigeon using a combination of Illumina short pair-end reads; HiFi reads and Hi-C technologies. Using the reference genome,Over 22,685,232 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 2,466,122 insertion-deletions (InDels) were identified. The genome sequence with a total length of 1.09 Gb was located on 29 chromosomes, accounting for 98.59%, while the number of corresponding sequences was 1,270, accounting for 61.53%. Among the sequences located on chromosomes, the length of the sequences that can determine the order and direction was 1.06 Gb, accounting for 96.8% of the total length of the sequences located on chromosomes. Sixty-four pigeons from six breeds of Chinese mainstream market were investigated and approximately 94.67% high-quality sequences(Q30 > 90%), with a mapping rate over 99.12% for each individual were observed, with a genome coverage of 99.12%. further contributing to the public database. This dataset provides valuable resources for studying genetic diversity and adaptation for the cultivation of new pigeon breeds.

PMID:
42315849
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 19 Jun 2026.

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