Fagus sylvatica (European Beech) genome resource

The chromosome level genome (version 2) represents a 541 megabase assembly with 63656 predicted gene models. A summary of the assembly is given in the table below. 





Number of scaffolds
169 (12 Chromosomes + 157 unplaced scaffolds)



Assembled Genome size
541 Mb



Longest scaffold
73.97 Mb



L50 size
46.56 Mb



N50 count
5



Number of predicted Gene models
63656



Total coding region
103 Mb






The searchable genome browser for the reference genome can be accessed here.

The genome assembly and gene annotations can be downloaded from here.

Raw data and assemblies are available at ENA with the project accession PRJEB43845. 


The publication is accessesible at
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2021.691058/full
 Please contact Prof. Dr. Marco Thines (m.thines@thines-lab.eu or marco.thines@senckenberg.de) for any further information and/or collaboration.