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Botta's pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae) is native to western North America. Botta's pocket gopher is highly adaptable, burrowing into a very diverse array of soils from loose sands to tightly packed clays, and from arid deserts to high altitude meadows. More...

Botta's pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae) is native to western North America. Botta's pocket gopher is highly adaptable, burrowing into a very diverse array of soils from loose sands to tightly packed clays, and from arid deserts to high altitude meadows. This sample is from a wild caught male in California, USA, collected by James L. Paton of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and provided by Chris Conroy of the same museum, and used to generate a high-quality reference genome for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP). Sequencing and genome assembly were conducted at the Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL), coordinated by Olivier Fedrigo and Erich D. Jarvis. Less...