A named draft assembly provides a living frog genomic reference while retaining its one-individual and draft-assembly boundary.
Represented range0–0 Ma
RegionsLaboratory genome dataset; Nigerian inbred line
CladesXenopus tropicalis · Anura
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event-mechanism · high
A roughly 7.6-fold draft assembly from a seventh-generation inbred Nigerian female Xenopus tropicalis spans about 1.51 Gbp and supplies an extant comparative model; it is not an amphibian ancestor, crown-age estimate or survey of all amphibian genomes.