Chicken (paternal White leghorn layer) assembly and gene annotation

Assembly

The bGalGal1.pat.whiteleghornlayer.GRCg7w_WZ assembly was submitted by Vertebrate Genomes Project and last updated on 2025-11-26. The assembly is on the chromosome level, consisting of 685 contigs assembled into 276 scaffolds. The N50 size is the length such that 50% of the assembled genome lies in blocks of the N50 size or longer. The N50 length for the contigs is 17744542 while the scaffold N50 is 90563926.

Gene annotation

Genome annotation was generated using the Ensembl vertebrate annotation pipeline.

In accordance with the Fort Lauderdale Agreement, please check the publication status of the genome/assembly before publishing any genome-wide analyses using these data.

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.