The genome sequence of the harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758)

Nicholas J Davison; Phillip A Morin; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.24011.1

The genome sequence of the harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758)

Wellcome Open Res. 2025 Apr 8:10:181. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.24011.1. eCollection 2025.

Authors

Nicholas J Davison¹, Phillip A Morin²; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliations

¹ Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme, University of Glasgow Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
² NOAA Fisheries Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California, USA.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from a female specimen of Phocoena phocoena (harbour porpoise; Chordata; Mammalia; Artiodactyla; Phocoenidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 2,512.71 megabases. Most of the assembly (94.41%) is scaffolded into 22 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the X sex chromosome. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 16.38 kilobases.

Keywords: Artiodactyla; Phocoena phocoena; chromosomal; genome sequence; harbour porpoise.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by Wellcome through core funding to the Wellcome Sanger Institute (220540) and the Darwin Tree of Life Discretionary Award [218328, https://doi.org/10.35802/218328 ].