Table 1.

Some recently sequenced vertebrate genomes in species of conservation concern.

Species	Red list category	Sequencing technology	Assembly algorithm	Contig N50 (bp)	Sequencing coverage	Number of authors	References
Chimpanzee	EN	Sanger	PCAP	53000	6×	67	Consortium (2005)
Mammoth	EX	Roche 454	NA	NA	<1×	22	Miller et al. (2008)
Panda	EN	Illumina GA	SOAPdenovo	39886	56×	123	Li et al. (2010)
Orang-utan	CR	Sanger	PCAP	15654	6×	101	Locke et al. (2011)
Cod	VU	Roche 454	Newbler	2778	40×	42	Star et al. (2011)
Tasmanian devil	EN	Roche 454/Illumina GAIIx	Newbler/CABOG	9495	14×	30	Miller et al. (2011)
African elephant	VU	Sanger (ABI3730)	ARACHNE (reference assisted)	2900	2×	60	Lindblad-Toh et al. (2011)
Tarsier	NT	Sanger (ABI3730)	ARACHNE (reference assisted)	2900	2×	60	Lindblad-Toh et al. (2011)
Polar bear	VU	Illumina HiSeq 2000	SOAPdenovo	3596	100×	26	Miller et al. (2012)
Puerto Rican parrot	CR	Illumina HiSeq 2000	Ray	6983	27×	14	Oleksyk et al. (2012)
Gorilla	CR	Sanger/Illumina	Phusion assembler/ABySS	11800	50×	71	Scally et al. (2012)
Bonobo	EN	Roche 454	Celera Assembler	67000	25×	41	Prufer et al. (2012)
Yak	VU	Illumina HiSeq 2000	SOAPdenovo	20400	65×	48	Qiu et al. (2012)
Aye-aye	NT	Illumina GAIIx	CLC bio Assemler	3650	38×	10	Perry et al. (2012)
Coelacanth	CR	Illumina HiSeq 2000	ALLPATHS-LG	12700	61×	91	Amemiya et al. (2013)
Saker falcon	EN	Illumina HiSeq 2000	SOAPdenovo	31200	113×	25	Zhan et al. (2013)
Tibetan antelope	EN	Illumina GAIIx	SOAPdenovo (reference assisted)	NA	Not reported	11	Kim et al. (2013)
Bluefin tuna	LC*	Roche 454/Illumina GAIIx	Newbler/Bowtie	7588	54×	24	Nakamura et al. (2013)
Darwin's finch	LC†	Roche 454	Newbler	Not reported	4×	19	Rands et al. (2013)
Straw coloured fruit bat	NT	Illumina HiSeq 2000	CLC bio	27140	17×	7	Parker et al. (2013)
King cobra	VU	Illumina GAIIx	CLC/SSPACE	3980	40×	36	Vonk et al. (2013)
Burmese python	VU	Roche 454/Illumina HiSeq 2000	Newbler/SOAPdenovo	10700	49×	39	Castoe et al. (2013)
Chinese softshell turtle	VU	Illumina HiSeq 2000	SOAPdenovo	22000	106×	34	Wang et al. (2013)
Tiger	EN	Illumina HiSeq 2000	SOAPdenovo	29800	118×	58	Cho et al. (2013)
Minke whale	LC‡	Illumina HiSeq 2000	SOAPdenovo	22571	128×	55	Yim et al. (2014)
Northern bobwhite	NT	Illumina HiSeq 2000	CLC	45400	142×	12	Halley et al. (2014)
Black grouse	LC§	SOLiD 5500xl	SOAPdenovo (reference assisted)	1238	127×	5	Wang et al. (2014)
White rhinoceros	NT	Illumina HiSeq 2000	ALLPATHS-LG	93000	91×	10	Di Palma et al. unpublished data

Red list categories: EX, extinct; CR, critically endangered; EN, endangered; VU, vulnerable, NT, near threatened; LC, least concern.

^*Not red-listed, but likely to be affected by overfishing.

^†Not red-listed, but endemic to a small geographic region.

^‡Not currently red-listed but, subject to extensive exploitation or within group of endangered taxa.

^§Not globally red-listed, but with several small and isolated regional populations.