Draft genome of the oriental garden lizard (Calotes versicolor)

Qing Wang; Fengping He; Ru-Yi Huang; Xueke Yang; Diancheng Yang; Jacob Njaramba Ngatia; Yanan Gong; Yanchun Xu; Song Huang; Hui Liu

doi:10.3389/fgene.2023.1091544

Draft genome of the oriental garden lizard (Calotes versicolor)

Front Genet. 2023 Feb 20:14:1091544. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1091544. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Qing Wang^{1

2}, Fengping He³, Ru-Yi Huang⁴, Xueke Yang¹, Diancheng Yang⁵, Jacob Njaramba Ngatia^{6

7}, Yanan Gong⁵, Yanchun Xu⁶, Song Huang⁵, Hui Liu¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Genetics and Germplasm Innovation of Tropical Special Forest Trees and Ornamental Plants (Ministry of Education), College of Forestry, Hainan University, Haikou, China.
² College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
³ College of Veterinary Medicine, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China.
⁴ Shanghai Collaborative Innovation for Aquatic Animal Genetics and Breeding, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.
⁵ Anhui Province Key Laboratory of the Conservation and Exploitation of Biological Resource, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China.
⁶ College of Wildlife and Protected Area, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China.
⁷ Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary, Taita-Taveta, Kenya.

No abstract available

Keywords: Calotes versicolor; draft genome; oxford nanopore technologies (ONT); phylogenomic analysis; reptile.

Grants and funding

Our project was financially supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2572020DR10). This work was also supported by China National GeneBank (CNGB).