Jessen V Bredeson, Austin B Mudd, Sofia Medina-Ruiz, Therese Mitros, Owen Kabnick Smith, Kelly E Miller, Jessica B Lyons, Sanjit S Batra, Joseph Park, Kodiak C Berkoff, Christopher Plott, Jane Grimwood, Jeremy Schmutz, Guadalupe Aguirre-Figueroa, Mustafa K Khokha, Maura Lane, Isabelle Philipp, Mara Laslo, James Hanken, Gwenneg Kerdivel, Nicolas Buisine, Laurent M Sachs, Daniel R Buchholz, Taejoon Kwon, Heidi Smith-Parker, Marcos Gridi-Papp, Michael J Ryan, Robert D Denton, John H Malone, John B Wallingford, Aaron F Straight, Rebecca Heald, Dirk Hockemeyer, Richard M Harland, Daniel S Rokhsar
Frogs are an ecologically diverse and phylogenetically ancient group of anuran amphibians that include important vertebrate cell and developmental model systems, notably the genus Xenopus. Here we report a high-quality reference genome sequence for the western clawed frog, Xenopus tropicalis, along with draft chromosome-scale sequences of three distantly related emerging model frog species, Eleutherodactylus coqui, Engystomops pustulosus, and Hymenochirus boettgeri. Frog chromosomes have remained remarkably stable since the Mesozoic Era, with limited Robertsonian (i...
January 17, 2024: Nature Communications