Ailuropoda melanoleuca
The genome of the giant panda ailMel1 (GCA_000004335.1) was assembled in 2008, sequenced using a three-year-old female panda at China's Chengdu breeding center [1]. The total length of all scaffolds is 2.25 GB cover approximately 94% of the whole genome. It has the following facts:
● Non coding genes: 3,141
● Small non coding genes: 2,783
● Misc non coding genes: 358
● Pseudogenes: 778
● Gene transcripts: 25,055
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