Population genomics of the critically endangered kākāpō

• Main Authors: Nicolas Dussex (Author), Tom van der Valk (Author), Hernán E. Morales (Author), Christopher W. Wheat (Author), David Díez- (Author), Johanna von Seth (Author), Yasmin Foster (Author), Verena E. Kutschera (Author), Katerina Guschanski (Author), Arang Rhie (Author), Adam M. Phillippy (Author), Jonas Korlach (Author), Kerstin Howe (Author), William Chow (Author), Sarah Pelan (Author), Joanna D. Mendes Damas (Author), Harris A. Lewin (Author), Alex R. Hastie (Author), Giulio Formenti (Author), Olivier Fedrigo (Author), Joseph Guhlin (Author), Thomas W.R. Harrop (Author), Marissa F. Le Lec (Author), Peter K. Dearden (Author), Leanne Haggerty (Author), Fergal J. Martin (Author), Vamsi Kodali (Author), Françoise Thibaud-Nissen (Author), David Iorns (Author), Michael Knapp (Author), Neil J. Gemmell (Author), Fiona Robertson (Author), Ron Moorhouse (Author), Andrew Digby (Author), Daryl Eason (Author), Deidre Vercoe (Author), Jason Howard (Author), Erich D. Jarvis (Author), Bruce C. Robertson (Author), Love Dalén (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: The kākāpō is a flightless parrot endemic to New Zealand. Once common in the archipelago, only 201 individuals remain today, most of them descending from an isolated island population. We report the first genome-wide analyses of the species, including a high-quality genome assembly for k...