Table 1.
Lake Malawi haplochromine cichlid genome assemblies
| Species/sample | Short name | Sex | Sequencing technology | Assembler | No. of contigs/scaffolds | Contig/scaffold N50 (Mbp) | Total size (Gbp) | Sequencing depth | BUSCO score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astatotilapia calliptera | astCal | ? | PacBio CLR + Illumina | Falcon | 738 (248) | 4.4 (38.7) | 0.88 | 80.72 | 97.2 |
| Maylandia zebra | mayZeb | Male | PacBio + Illumina | Falcon | 2331 (1690) | 1.4 (32.7) | 0.96 | 154.12 | 98.4 |
| Tropheops sp. “mauve” | troMau | Male | PacBio CLR | Falcon | 271 | 8.4 | 0.91 | 137.72 | 98.4 |
| Aulonocara stuartgranti | aulStu | Male | PacBio CLR | Falcon | 1027 | 2.1 | 0.89 | 86.31 | 98.3 |
| Otopharynx argyrosoma | otoArg | Male | ONT | Shasta | 2861 | 2.5 | 0.88 | 24.44 | 93.6 |
| Copadichromis chrysonotus | copChr | Male | ONT | Shasta | 6225 | 0.6 | 0.86 | 19.43 | 92.5 |
| Rhamphcchromis sp. “chilingali” | rhaChi | Male | PacBio CLR | Falcon | 437 | 4.4 | 0.90 | 94.37 | 98.4 |
| rhaChi2 | Female | ONT | Shasta | 3239 | 1.2 | 0.85 | 42.13 | 93.9 |
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astCal and mayZeb are previously published chromosome-level assemblies from Ensembl. Values in parentheses for these two indicate properties calculated for scaffolds, in addition to the contig-level statistics like for the other assemblies.











