Genomic sequence
The B-3501A assembly consists of 70 contigs representing 18.5 Mb. The
contigs can be placed into 14 scaffolds representing 14 chromosomes.
Chromosome assignments were made based on genetic marker data from Bob
Marra, Duke University (soon to be published).
Most gaps between contigs are small, a few hundred bases or less.
Eleven gaps are very large (20 kb - 60 kb). The large gaps are in highly
repetitive regions of the genome. In the scaffolds file, large gaps are
represented by 1000 N's and small gaps are 100 N's. The rDNA repeat unit
is in chromosome 2 and a couple copies are present in the sequence along
with a large gap.