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Conserving Canada's Genomic Diversity
American beaver (Castor canadensis)

Follow the progress of the Canadian Biogenome Project

This chart follows the progress made by the Canadian Biogenome team to generate and deposit
400 high quality reference genomes for species in Canada that represent a diverse domain of life.

Updated on 24-Sep-2023.

Canadian Biogenome Project species list

The Canadian Biogenome Project deposits all generated data to the NCBI as BioProject 813333.

common name
scientific name
status
BioProject
data
American lobster
sampled
American plaice
sequenced
sra
Arctic char
sequenced
sra
Arctic lyre crab
sampled
Arctic surf clam
sequenced
sra
Atlantic lyre crab
sampled
Atlantic rock crab
sampled
Atlantic whitefish
sequenced
sra
BC Pteromalus (undescribed species)
sampled
Beluga whale
sequenced
sra
Bent-nosed squat lobster
sampled
Blanding's turtle
sequenced
sra
Blood-red field ant
sequenced
sra
Blue racer
sequenced
sra
Capelin
sampled
Common sand dollar
sampled
Common starfish
sampled
Common sun star
sampled
Copper redhorse
sequenced
sra
Daisy brittle star
sampled
Daubed shanny
sequenced
sra
Dulse
sampled
Eastern Massasauga rattlesnake
sampled
Eastern carpenter bee
sequenced
sra
Eastern foxsnake
sequenced
sra
Eastern hognose
sampled
Evergreen huckleberry
sampled
Fat blood star
sampled
Ferruginous hawk
sampled
Formica podzolica
sampled
Green sea urchin
sequenced
sra
Greenland cockle
assembled
Grey ratsnake
sampled
Horse star
sequenced
sra
Indian plum
sampled
Jonah crab
sequenced
sra
Kentucky coffee tree
sampled
Liver fluke
sampled
Loggerhead sea turtle
annotated
Midland painted turtle
sampled
Monterey sea lemon
sequenced
sra
Mud heart urchin
sampled
Mud star
sampled
Musk turtle
sequenced
sra
Northern fulmar
sampled
Northern leopard frog
sequenced
sra
Northern long-toed salamander
sampled
Northern map turtle
sampled
Northern propeller clam
sequenced
sra
Northern sand lance
sampled
Northern scarlet star
sampled
Northern stone crab
sequenced
sra
Oblique banded leaf roller
sampled
Orange-footed sea cucumber
sampled
Oregon spotted frog
sampled
Pacific spiny dogfish
assembled
Polar sea star
sampled
Purple sunstar
sampled
Red flowering currant
sampled
Redwood sorrel
sampled
Russian hat sponge
sampled
Salmonberry
sampled
Scarlet psolus
sampled
Sea colander
sampled
Smooth skate
sequenced
sra
Snapping turtle
sampled
Snow crab
sampled
Sonoran pronghorn
sampled
Spotted turtle
sampled
Star-tipped reindeer lichen
sequenced
sra
Steller sea lion
sequenced
sra
Strawberry blossom weevil
sampled
Subalpine mountainsnail
sequenced
sra
Turban barnacle
sequenced
sra
Vancouver Island Marmot
sampled
Western painted turtle
sampled
White hake
sequenced
sra
Winter skate
sequenced
sra
Wood turtle
sequenced
sra
aquatic leaf beetle
sampled
arciform click beetle
sampled
milkweed leaf beetle
sampled
russet alder leaf beetle
sampled
spiny softshell turtle
sampled

Updated on 24-Sep-2023.

Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis)

Declining Biodiversity, Management, Human Well-being

Canada possesses significant biodiversity, with ~80,000 plant and animal species in environments ranging from desert to the arctic. Many of these species are under threat due to rapid changes in climate and other human-led impacts on our environment.

The 2015 federal Wild Species report, which assessed ~27,500 Canadian species, identified ~6 per cent (1,659 species) as “May Be at Risk” in Canada

As of 2017-18, the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada’s (COSEWIC) assessments included 771 wildlife species in various risk categories; 18 assessed as extinct.

Assessments by Indigenous Peoples in Canada also reflect systemic change— Inuit report declining abundance, health and populations in several species.