Table 2 Summary of genome assemblies

Giant panda

Illumina; 10X Genomics; Flow-sorted chromosome sequencing

2.4

129,200,000

73,513

42

PRJNA588422

[36]

Brown bear

PacBio; Illumina

2.5

70,100,000

901

74

PRJNA807323

[23]

Asiatic black bear

Illumina NovaSeq

2.4

26,800,000

24,967

74

PRJNA573607

[17]

Andean bear

Illumina; Oxford Nanopore

2.2

21,100,000

12,402

52

PRJNA472085

[18]

Polar bear

Ilumina HiSeq; Oxford Nanopore

2.3

72,000,000

3899

74

PRJNA669153

American black bear

PacBio

2.4

13,900,000

2212

74

PRJNA319796

[21]

Sun bear

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

74

N/A

Sloth bear

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

74

N/A