[ensembl-dev] Gorilla species

Bronwen Aken ba1 at sanger.ac.uk
Fri Aug 5 14:07:37 BST 2011


Hi Sebastien,

The taxonomy ID will remain as 9593 for gorilla.

Thanks,
Bronwen


On 3 Aug 2011, at 12:58, Sébastien Moretti wrote:

>> 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.
>>> 
>>> You use 9593 which is "Gorilla gorilla" instead of 9595 which belongs to the Western lowland gorilla.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Is it something wanted because you are not sure of the sequenced species ?
> 
> -- 
> Sébastien Moretti
> Department of Ecology and Evolution,
> Biophore, University of Lausanne,
> CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
> Tel.: +41 (21) 692 4221/4079
> http://bioinfo.unil.ch/

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