BioSample

Stout iguana (Cyclura pinguis) is a critically endangered species of lizard of the genus Cyclura belonging to the family Iguanidae. The species can be found exclusively in Anegada and Guana islands of the British Virgin Islands. Historically, it inhabited the islands of Puerto Rico and Saint Thomas; however, the animal's original range has been greatly diminished over prehistory (from Wikipedia). This sample was collected from an adult male born in the San Diego Zoo, coordinated by Oliver Ryder and Cynthia Steiner, and used to create at high-quality reference genome for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP). Sequencing and genome assembly were conducted at the Vertebrate Genomes Lab (VGL) at the Rockefeller University, led by Olivier Fedrigo and Erich D. Jarvis, with funding support from HHMI.