Repository series · ncbi-prjna1448081
The Namaqua dove (Oena capensis) is a very small species of pigeon.
The Namaqua dove (Oena capensis) is a very small species of pigeon. It is the only species in the genus Oena. It is found over much of Sub-Saharan Africa as well as Arabia and Madagascar (from Wikipedia entry). This sample of a female individual was procured from the breeding center project "The Dodo Park" owned by Nasser Bin Mohamed Al-Jbr in northern Qatar and coordinated by Simona Secomandi and supported by Ben Novak to generate a high-quality reference genome for Revive & Restore and the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP). Sequencing was done by the Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL) at the Rockefeller University, led by Erich D. Jarvis, Giulio Formenti, and Jennifer Balacco, and assembly and manual curation were done by Secomandi.
The accession and its GCC connection are verified. Registration alone does not establish that the broader research programme remains active.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- Qatar connection indexed in BioProject metadata
- Project type
- Repository submission series
- Research domain
- Agriculture, food and veterinary genomics
- Years
- 2026–
- Lifecycle status
- repository_recorded
- Status basis
- Registered in NCBI BioProject on 2026/04/03; operational lifecycle is not asserted.
- Status evidence date
- 2026-04-03
- Scale
- 2 BioProject accessions grouped by matching submitter, date, data type and narrative.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- Vertebrate Genomes Project · G10K · Rockefeller Vertebrate Genomes Lab
- Partner organizations
- Not stated
- Organism / population
- Oena capensis
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- Genome sequencing and assembly
- Sequencing
- Genome
Data access
Public repository metadata with linked data where supplied by the submitter
Identifiers
- BioProject
PRJNA1448081 - BioProject
PRJNA1448082 - BioProject
PRJNA1037231 - BioProject
PRJNA489243 - BioProject
PRJNA1493220
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Exact country-name match in authoritative NCBI BioProject metadata; repeated submissions are grouped into one Atlas series.
Editorial note
Repository verification confirms the accession and regional connection, not whether the broader research programme remains active.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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