Anolis sagrei (brown anole lizard) genome, rAnoSag3, sequence data
The brown anole lizard (Anolis sagrei) is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is native to Cuba and the Bahamas. It has been widely introduced elsewhere, via the importation and exportation of plants where the anole would lay eggs in the soil of the pots, and is now found in Florida and as far north in the United States as southern Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Hawaii, and Southern California. It has also been introduced to other Caribbean islands, Mexico, and Taiwan (from Wikipedia entry). This sample of a female individual (rAnoSag3) found in Palm Coast, Florida is part of a trio assembly (offspring rAnoSag1, father rAnoSag2). The samples were procured by Tonia Schwartz and coordinated by Anne Bronikowski to generate a high-quality reference genome for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP). Sequencing and genome assembly were conducted at the Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL) at the Rockefeller University, led by Erich D. Jarvis, Giulio Formenti, and Jennifer Balacco.