BioSample

The seaside sparrow (Ammospiza maritima) is a species of American sparrow. Their breeding habitat is salt marshes on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States from southern New Hampshire to southern Texas (from Wikipedia entry). This sample was collected by Chris Elphick from Barn Island Wildlife Management Area in Stonington, Connecticut, USA and used to generate a high-quality reference genome for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP). The project was coordinated by Adrienne Kovach and Lindsey Fenderson of the University of New Hampshire. Sequencing and genome assembly were conducted at the Vertebrate Genomes Lab (VGL) at the Rockefeller University, led by Olivier Fedrigo and Erich D. Jarvis.