@article{6044c481255d4b6fbb551f07dd5f0cbe,
title = "Sequencing three crocodilian genomes to illuminate the evolution of archosaurs and amniotes",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "Amniote, Archosauria, Crocodylia, Evolution, Genomics",
author = "{St John}, {John A.} and Braun, {Edward L.} and Isberg, {Sally R.} and Miles, {Lee G.} and Chong, {Amanda Y.} and Jaime Gongora and Pauline Dalzell and Christopher Moran and Bertrand Bed'Hom and Arkhat Abzhanov and Burgess, {Shane C.} and Cooksey, {Amanda M.} and Castoe, {Todd A.} and Crawford, {Nicholas G.} and Densmore, {Llewellyn D.} and Drew, {Jennifer C.} and Edwards, {Scott V.} and Faircloth, {Brant C.} and Fujita, {Matthew K.} and Greenwold, {Matthew J.} and Hoffmann, {Federico G.} and Howard, {Jonathan M.} and Taisen Iguchi and Janes, {Daniel E.} and Khan, {Shahid Y.} and Satomi Kohno and {de Koning}, {AP Jason} and Lance, {Stacey L.} and McCarthy, {Fiona M.} and McCormack, {John E.} and Merchant, {Mark E.} and Peterson, {Daniel G.} and Pollock, {David D.} and Nader Pourmand and Raney, {Brian J.} and Roessler, {Kyria A.} and Sanford, {Jeremy R.} and Sawyer, {Roger H.} and Schmidt, {Carl J.} and Triplett, {Eric W.} and Tuberville, {Tracey D.} and Miryam Venegas-Anaya and Howard, {Jason T.} and Jarvis, {Erich D.} and Guillette, {Louis J.} and Glenn, {Travis C.} and Green, {Richard E.} and Ray, {David A.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by grants to D.A.R. (MCB-1052500, MCB-0841821, DEB-1020865 from the U.S. National Science Foundation) and funds from the Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing and Biotechnology at Mississippi State University. E.L.B., E.W.T., and collaborators at the University of Florida were supported by funds from the U.S. National Science Foundation (DUE-0920151). T.I. received financial support from the National Institute for Basic Biology and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. S.R.I., L.G.M., J.G., P.D. and C.M. were supported by Australian Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation grants (RIRDC PRJ-000549, RIRDC PRJ-005355, RIRDC PRJ-002461). M.K.F. received financial support from a U.S. National Science Foundation Biological Informatics Postdoctoral Fellowship (DBI-0905714). R.E.G. is a Searle Scholar and a Sloan Fellow. E.D.J. was supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Institutes of Health. We are grateful to Kent Vliet (University of Florida) and the Alligator Farm (St. Augustine, Florida) for providing access to fresh gharial blood.",
year = "2012",
month = jan,
day = "31",
doi = "10.1186/gb-2012-13-1-415",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "13",
journal = "Genome Biology",
issn = "1474-7596",
publisher = "BioMed Central",
number = "1",
}