Draft genome of the oriental garden lizard (Calotes versicolor)

Wang, Qing; He, Fengping; HUANG, RU-YI; Yang, Xueke; Yang, Dian‐Cheng; Ngatia, Jacob Njaramba; Gong, Yibo; Xu, Yanchun; Huang, Song; Liu, Hui

doi:10.3389/fgene.2023.1091544

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“…To construct a time-calibrated species tree (Figure 4), we identified 3,130 single-copy orthologs from the female A. muricatus assembly and 12 other squamate species. In addition to A. muricatus, seven agamid species currently have genome assemblies: two Australian dragon lizards (P. vitticeps and I. lesueurii), four toad-headed agamas (genus Phrynocephalus), and the oriental garden lizard (C. versicolor) (Gao et al 2019;Georges et al 2015;Qi et al 2023;Wang et al 2023;Jin et al 2022). Our analysis shows that the agamids shared an ancestor about 79.8 Mya [74.5-86.1 Mya 95% credibility interval (CI)].…”

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confidence: 95%

“…The BUSCO (v5.0.0 with the 7,480-gene sauropsida_odb10 dataset) metrics of the A. muricatus assemblies compared well to other squamate assemblies, including agamids from Australia [P. vitticeps (Georges et al 2015) and I. lesueurii (Australian water dragon)], China (toad-headed agamas of genus Phrynocephalus sp. (Gao et al 2019;Jin et al 2022;Qi et al 2023)), and the widely distributed oriental garden lizard (C. versicolor) (Wang et al 2023) (Figure 3 and Table S5).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This study This study Georges et. al (2015) NA Gao et al, 2019Gao et al, 2019Qi et al 2023Jin et al 2022Wang et al 2023…”

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Draft genomes of a male and female Australian jacky dragon (Amphibolurus muricatus)

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Australia is remarkable for its lizard diversity, with very high endemicity because of continental-scale diversification and adaptive radiation. We employed 10X Genomics Chromium linked-reads technology to generate male and female draft genomes of the jacky dragon (Amphibolurus muricatus), an Australian dragon lizard (family Agamidae). The assemblies are 1.8 Gb in size and have a repeat content (38%) and GC content (42%) similar to other dragon lizards. The contig N50 values for the assemblies were 37.2 kb (female) and 28.8 kb (male), with corresponding scaffold N50 values of 720.5 kb and 369 kb. The longest scaffold was 6.5 Mb in each assembly. The BUSCO completeness percentages were 92.2% and 90.8% respectively. These statistics are comparable to other lizard genomes assembled using similar technology. Phylogenetic comparisons show that Australian dragon lizard species split from a common ancestor around 33.4 million years ago. The draft A. muricatus assemblies will be a valuable resource for understanding lizard sex determination and the evolution and conservation of Australian dragon lizards.

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