The Genome Sequence of the Common Toad, (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Journal Wellcome Open Res

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2022 Jan 14

PMID 35028424

Authors

Jeffrey W Streicher

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Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male (the common toad; Chordata; Amphibia; Anura; Bufonidae). The genome sequence is 5.04 gigabases in span. The majority of the assembly (99.1%) is scaffolded into 11 chromosomal pseudomolecules. Gene annotation of this assembly by the NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline has identified 21,517 protein coding genes.

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