Figure 1. Generation of a new high quality reference genome for Metriaclima zebra.

Example alignment of Bionano maps created from blood isolated from a single Metriaclima zebra male to the M_zebra_UMD2a reference (top) or the newly generated M_zebra_GT3a reference (bottom). The M_zebra_GT3a reference was created using a combination of PacBio HiFi reads and Bionano molecules. A summary of the improvements in the new genome is found in Table S1.