Crocodylus niloticus (Nile crocodile) genome, rCroNil1, sequence data
The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is a large crocodilian native to freshwater habitats in Africa, where it is present in 26 countries. It is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, occurring mostly in the eastern, southern, and central regions of the continent, and lives in different types of aquatic environments such as lakes, rivers, swamps and marshlands (from Wikipedia entry). This sample of a female individual was procured by Tzachi Hagai, Sivan Friedman, Rotem Fuchs, and Zohar Haggai of Tel Aviv University 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.