The genome sequence of Artibeus lituratus (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae, Stenodermatinae; Olfers, 1818).

Nancy B. Simmons; Melissa R. Ingala; Brian P. O'Toole; Giulio Formenti; Philip Philge; Ning Zhang; Erich D. Jarvis; Jonathan L. Gray; Kirsty McCaffrey; Nadolina Brajuka; Myrtani Pieri; Meike Mai; Emma C. Teeling; Sonja C. Vernes; The Bat Biology Foundation; The Bat1K Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23088.1

The genome sequence of Artibeus lituratus (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae, Stenodermatinae; Olfers, 1818).

Nancy B. Simmons^*, Melissa R. Ingala, Brian P. O'Toole, Giulio Formenti, Philip Philge, Ning Zhang, Erich D. Jarvis, Jonathan L. Gray, Kirsty McCaffrey, Nadolina Brajuka, Myrtani Pieri, Meike Mai, Emma C. Teeling, Sonja C. Vernes^*, The Bat Biology Foundation, The Bat1K Consortium

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Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Artibeus lituratus (Chordata; Mammalia; Chiroptera; Phyllostomidae). The genome sequence is 2.15 in span. The majority of the assembly is scaffolded into 30 chromosomal pseudomolecules, with the X and Y sex chromosomes assembled.

Original language	English
Article number	170
Pages (from-to)	1-12
Number of pages	12
Journal	Wellcome Open Research
Volume	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23088.1
Publication status	Published - 24 Oct 2025

Keywords

Artibeus lituratus
Bat1K
Chromosomal
Genome sequence

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The genome sequence of Artibeus lituratus (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae, Stenodermatinae; Olfers, 1818) (dataset)
Mai, M. (Creator) & Vernes, S. (Creator), NCBI GenBank, 2025
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/PRJNA1080658 and one more link, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/genome/GCA_038363095.4/ (show fewer)
Dataset

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Simmons, N. B., Ingala, M. R., O'Toole, B. P., Formenti, G., Philge, P., Zhang, N., Jarvis, E. D., Gray, J. L., McCaffrey, K., Brajuka, N., Pieri, M., Mai, M., Teeling, E. C., Vernes, S. C., The Bat Biology Foundation, & The Bat1K Consortium (2025). The genome sequence of Artibeus lituratus (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae, Stenodermatinae; Olfers, 1818). Wellcome Open Research, 10, 1-12. Article 170. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23088.1

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The genome sequence of Artibeus lituratus (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae, Stenodermatinae; Olfers, 1818).

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The genome sequence of Artibeus lituratus (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae, Stenodermatinae; Olfers, 1818) (dataset)

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