BioSample

The nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) is found in many kinds of habitats, from mature and secondary rainforests to grassland and dry scrub.Their reproduction has some differences relative to other mammals, where implantation of fertilized eggs in females are delayed for three to four months to ensure the young will not be born during an unfavorable time. Once the zygote does implant in the uterus, it splits into four identical embryos, to form quadruplets (modified from Wikipedia entry). This sample is from a wild-caught male, and was collected by Jeffrey Padberg at the University of Central Arkansas. This effort was coordinated by Trygve Bakken, Ed Lein, Rebbeca Hodge at the Allen Institute for Brain Science and Stephanie White and Erich D. Jarvis at Rockefeller University, to generate a high-quality reference genome for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) and an Allen Institute motor cortex project. Sequencing and genome assembly were conducted at the Vertebrate Genomes Lab (VGL) at the Rockefeller University led by Olivier Fedrigo and Erich D. Jarvis.