[ensembl-dev] Gorilla species

[Sébastien Moretti]

> Hi Sebastien,

Hi

> Yes, the gorilla genome is from Western lowland gorilla. The NCBI taxon id was set at the species level and not at the subspecies level, which is why you see 9593 instead of 9595.
>
> For the coming e64 release, we will be changing the MT sequence from NC_001645 (western gorilla) to NC_011120 (western lowland gorilla).
>
> Cheers,
> Bronwen

So, in the next release you should use the subspecies level if all 
genomic sequences come from the western lowland gorilla ?

>> Hi
>>
>> The NCBI taxon id for the Western lowland gorilla "Gorilla gorilla gorilla" does not seem to be the right one.
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>> You use 9593 which is "Gorilla gorilla" instead of 9595 which belongs to the Western lowland gorilla.
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>> Is it something wanted because you are not sure of the sequenced species ?

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