DATA ACCESSIBILITY AND BENEFIT-SHARING
Related metadata and code, including georeferences in decimal degrees and
date/month/year of sampling event and unique sample identifier tags that
can be matched to the deposited genetic data, is available in the online
supplementary material and via the Dryad digital repository
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.wstqjq2ss. The genome assembly and raw transcriptome data will be made available under NCBI’s BioProject PRJNA1014961. The raw PacBio HiFi reads are publicly available from the Bioplatforms Australia Threatened Species Initiative:
https://data.bioplatforms.com/organization/threatened-species. The assembled genome, global transcriptome, and genome annotation generated in this study are available on Amazon Web Services Australasian Genomes Open Data Store:
https://awgg-lab.github.io/australasiangenomes/genomes.html.
Benefits Generated: A research collaboration was developed between three
academic institutions, a non-governmental organisation, state and
federal governments and the local community on King Island. Results of
the research will be used to directly inform conservation actions to
help facilitate population recovery of the King Island scrubtit and will
be used indirectly to help inform genetic management of other small,
isolated animal populations both within Australia and globally.
Additional benefits from this research accrue from the sharing of our
data and results on public databases as described above.