Open letter
Sequencing three crocodilian genomes to illuminate the evolution of archosaurs and amniotes
1 Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
2 Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
3 Porosus Pty Ltd, PO Box 86, Palmerston, NT 0831, Australia
4 South Eastern Area Laboratory Services, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia
5 Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
6 INRA, AgroParisTech, UMR1313 Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology, Jouy-en-Josas, F78352, France
7 Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
8 Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing and Biotechnology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
9 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
10 Department of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
11 Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
12 Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
13 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 621 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
14 Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29205, USA
15 Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
16 Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
17 Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 5-1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8787, Japan
18 Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
19 Cuurent address: National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 2089, USA
20 Hollings Marine Laboratory, Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29412, USA
21 Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, PO Drawer E, Aiken, SC 29802, USA
22 College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
23 Moore Laboratory of Zoology, Occidental College, 1600 Campus Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90041, USA
24 Department of Chemistry, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA 70609, USA
25 Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
26 Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
27 Department of Animal & Food Sciences University of Delaware, Newark DE, 19717, USA
28 Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
29 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Department of Neurobiology, Box 3209, Durham, NC 27710, USA
30 Department of Environmental Health Science and Georgia Genomics Facility, Environmental Health Science Building, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Genome Biology 2012, 13:415 doi:10.1186/gb-2012-13-1-415
Published: 31 January 2012Abstract
The International Crocodilian Genomes Working Group (ICGWG) will sequence and assemble the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) and Indian gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) genomes. The status of these projects and our planned analyses are described.
