Table 1.

Assembly statistics for representative published Canidae assemblies and the gray fox genome from this study.

Species	Assembly accession	2N	Assembly length	Number of contigs	Contig N50	Number of scaffolds	Scaffold N50	Scaffold L90	Ns
Domestic dog Canis lupus familiaris	GCF_011100685.1 (Wang et al. 2021)	78	2.48 Gb	2,782	14,840,767	2,197	64,299,765	35	58.5k
Gray wolf Canis lupus	GCA_905319855.2 (Darwin Tree of Life)	78	2.45 Gb	248	34,375,412	82	65,778,685	33	45.8k
Dingo Canis lupus dingo	GCF_003254725.2	78	2.35 Gb	228	40,716,615	159	64,250,934	33	33.7k
African wild dog Lycaon pictus	DNAZoo	78	2.35 Gb	25,566	193,716	1,919	62,683,413	33	58.7M
Maned wolf Chrysocyon brachyurus	GCA_028533335.1	76	2.34 Gb	157,193	91,425	120,371	60,785,871	35	9.91M
Bush dog Speothos venaticus	GCA_023170115.1	74	2.32 Gb	139,953	44,841	52,603	111,912	21,243	22.7M
Raccoon dog Nyctereutes procyonoides	GCF_905146905.1 (Lan et al. 2022)	54 + B	2.39 Gb	879	35,077,230	811	53,959,811	46	500k
Bat-eared fox Otocyon megalotis	DNAZoo	64	2.38 Gb	13,740	617,182	6,963	68,620,662	33	3.35M
Corsac fox Vulpes corsac	GCA_030463245.1 (Zhang et al. 2023)	36	2.35 Gb	309	41,624,634	202	132,204,642	16	10.7k
Tibetan sand fox Vulpes ferrilata	GCA_024500485.1 (Lyu et al. 2022)	36	2.38 Gb	379	52,909,674	234	133,960,477	16	34.1k
Arctic fox Vulpes lagopus	GCF_018345385.1 (Peng et al. 2021)	50	2.35 Gb	1,456	33,460,300	929	131,537,142	20	52.7k
Red fox Vulpes vulpes	DNAZoo	34 + (0–8)B	2.42 Gb	175,019	63,228	82,277	139,030,359	16	71.8M
Island fox Urocyon littoralis	DNAZoo	66	2.54 Gb	710,357	125,395	685,071	65,046,675	21,594	9.17 M
Gray fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus	This study	66	2.66 Gb	924	59,386,518	898	72,908,786	34	2,600