Figure 1. The striped mouse reference genome.
(A) Adult striped mouse photographed during the day, showing its characteristic dorsal stripe pattern. (B) Hi-C contact map of the 24 chromosome-scale scaffolds. Enrichment of long-range contacts is shown in red. Higher pixel intensity (red) represents a greater number of contacts between loci. Strong enrichment along the diagonal demonstrates accurate scaffold assembly. (C) Comparison of BUSCO gene recovery in the striped mouse reference genome compared to that of 23 other species in the family Muridae. The striped mouse shows high recovery of single-copy mammalian benchmark orthologs with low rates of duplication and fragmentation. Photography credit: Trevor Hardaker.