Whilst the global threat to biodiversity is accelerating, recent advances in sequencing and assembly technologies, along with decreasing costs, are ushering in a golden age for biodiversity genomics. In a From the Cover article in this issue of Molecular Ecology Resources, Morin et al. report an exceptionally high‐quality draft genome assembly of the vaquita (Phocoena sinus), a porpoise first described in 1958 and currently numbering fewer than 20 individuals in the wild. On the brink of extinction and described as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a precipitous population decline since the 1990 s has been due to bycatch in gillnets in the Upper Gulf of California.

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在正在进行的拯救小头鼠海豚的战斗中，基因组的见解令人感到乐观

虽然全球对生物多样性的威胁正在加剧，但测序和组装技术的最新进展以及成本的降低正在迎来生物多样性基因组学的黄金时代。在本期《分子生态学资源》的封面文章中，Morin等人。报告了 vaquita（Phocoena 窦）的异常高质量的基因组组装草图，这是一种 1958 年首次描述的鼠海豚，目前在野外的数量不到 20 只。濒临灭绝并被国际自然保护联盟 (IUCN) 描述为极度濒危，自 1990 年代以来人口急剧下降是由于加利福尼亚湾上游刺网的兼捕造成的。