BioSample

The southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) is a medium-sized macaque that lives in Sundaland, southern Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. This macaque has buff-brown fur, with a darker dorsal area and lighter ventral area. Its common name refers to the short tail held semi-erect, resembling the tail of a pig (from Wikipedia entry). This sample is from a male individual bred at the Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC) at the University of Washington in Seattle. The sample was procured by Rebecca Hodge and coordinated by Trygve Bakken, Ed Lein, and Rebecca Hodge at the Allen Institute for Brain Science to generate a high-quality reference genome for an Allen Institute motor cortex project and for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP). Sequencing and genome assembly were conducted at the Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL) at the Rockefeller University, led by Erich D. Jarvis, Giulio Formenti, and Jennifer Balacco.