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New Darwin Tree of Life Genome Assembly Available for the Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted flycatcher perched on a wire in Sicily
Research · Genetics & genomics

A new Darwin Tree of Life genomic resource for the spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) was registered in NCBI BioProject on 20 August 2026. The project, accession PRJEB124029, provides the bMusSti1 haplotype-1 genome assembly.

A genome assembly brings sequenced DNA together into a reconstructed representation of the genome that can be used as a reference for studying genes and genetic variation. Darwin Tree of Life has registered separate haplotype-1 and haplotype-2 projects, representing two separately assembled versions of the bird’s diploid genome.

The Wellcome Sanger Institute submission is classified as genome sequencing, and NCBI links public genomic-DNA records to the haplotype-1 project. The companion bMusSti1 haplotype-2 project, accession PRJEB124030, was registered on the same date but currently has no public data linked on its BioProject page.

The BioProject records state that the sequence data are made available under the Darwin Tree of Life Open Data Release Policy. The haplotype-1 assembly therefore adds a new publicly available genomic resource for M. striata.

Sources and image credit

  1. National Center for Biotechnology Information. (2026). bMusSti1 hap1 (spotted flycatcher) [BioProject PRJEB124029]. NCBI BioProject.Primary repository record. Registered 20 August 2026; provides the Muscicapa striata bMusSti1 haplotype 1 genome assembly and currently links to 38 genomic-DNA records.
  2. National Center for Biotechnology Information. (2026). bMusSti1 hap2 (spotted flycatcher) [BioProject PRJEB124030]. NCBI BioProject.Supporting repository record for the companion haplotype 2 project, registered on the same date. The BioProject page currently has no public data linked.

Image: Badadaba / Wikimedia Commons — spotted flycatcher in Sicily, Italy, 24 May 2023. Representative image for this story; not presented as an animal or scene from the reported study or event. · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

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