Genome data of the bird of paradise, Pteridophora alberti

The Pteridophora alberti is also know as the King of Saxony bird of paradise. It is endemic to montane forest in New Guinea. The adult King of Saxony bird-of-paradise is approximately 22 cm long. The male is black and yellow with a dark brown iris, brownish-grey legs, a black bill with a bright aqua-green gape, and two remarkably long (up to 50 cm) scalloped, enamel-blue brow-plumes that can be independently erected at the bird's will. The unadorned female is greyish brown with barred underparts. The diet consists mainly of fruits, berries and arthropods.(Wikipedia). Here we extracted DNA from the footpad of a museum specimen collected collected nearly 70 years ago. Due to the natural degradation of the DNA it was not possible to make de novo assembly of the genome so the reads were mapped to the genome assembly of a closely related species, Ptiloris paradiseus. The map reads provide 16721 coding gene sequences, and BUSCO analysis demonstrates a coverage of 94.8%.