BioSample

The data generated from this biosample is currently under a G10K-VGP publication embargo until removed from this description, following the G10K data use policy at the following URL: https://genome10k.soe.ucsc.edu/about/data_use_policy The greater horseshoe bat, like some other bat species, are much longer lived like humans relative to their body size, and is being used as species to study the genetics of longevity. It native distribution covers Europe, North Africa, Central Asia and Eastern Asia. The sample was collected by Gareth Jones, and processed by Sylke Winkler in Gene Myers' group at the Max Plank Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) and by Olivier Fedrigo's group at the Rockefeller University Vertebrate Genome lab, in collaboration with Emma Teeling from University College Dublin.