John A. St John¹, Edward L. Braun², Sally R. Isberg^3,5, Lee G. Miles⁵, Amanda Y. Chong⁵, Jaime Gongora⁵,
Pauline Dalzell^4,5, Christopher Moran⁵, Bertrand Bed'Hom⁶, Arkhat Abzhanov⁷, Shane C. Burgess⁸,
Amanda M. Cooksey⁸, Todd A. Castoe⁹, Nicholas G. Crawford¹⁰, Llewellyn D. Densmore¹¹,
Jennifer C. Drew¹², Scott V. Edwards⁷, Brant C. Faircloth¹³, Matthew K. Fujita⁷, Matthew J. Greenwold¹⁴,
Federico G. Hoffmann^8,15, Jonathan M. Howard¹⁶, Taisen Iguchi¹⁷, Daniel E. Janes^18,19,
Shahid Yar Khan¹, Satomi Kohno²⁰, A. P. Jason de Koning⁹, Stacey L. Lance²¹, Fiona M. McCarthy²²,
John E. McCormack²³, Mark E. Merchant²⁴, Daniel G. Peterson^8,25, David D. Pollock⁹, Nader Pourmand¹,
Brian J. Raney²⁶, Kyria A. Roessler¹, Jeremy R. Sanford¹⁶, Roger H. Sawyer¹⁴, Carl J. Schmidt²⁷,
Eric W. Triplett²⁸, Tracey D. Tuberville²¹, Miryam Venegas-Anaya¹¹, Jason T. Howard²⁹, Erich D. Jarvis²⁹,
Louis J. Guillette Jr.²⁰, Travis C. Glenn³⁰, Richard E. Green¹, and David A. Ray^8,15

¹Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
²Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
³Porosus Pty Ltd, PO Box 86, Palmerston, NT 0831, Australia
⁴South Eastern Area Laboratory Services, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia
⁵Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
⁶INRA, AgroParisTech, UMR1313 Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology, Jouy-en-Josas, F78352, France
⁷Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
⁸Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing and Biotechnology, Mississippi State University,
Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
⁹Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine,
Aurora, CO 80045, USA
¹⁰Department of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
¹¹Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
¹²Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
¹³Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California,
621 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
¹⁴Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29205, USA
¹⁵Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology,
Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
¹⁶Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, University of California,
Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
¹⁷Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institute for Basic Biology,
National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 5-1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8787, Japan
¹⁸Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University,
16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
¹⁹National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 2089, USA
²⁰Hollings Marine Laboratory, Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Sciences, Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29412, USA
²¹Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, PO Drawer E, Aiken, SC 29802, USA
²²College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
²³Moore Laboratory of Zoology, Occidental College, 1600 Campus Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90041, USA
²⁴Department of Chemistry, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA 70609, USA
²⁵Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
²⁶Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
²⁷Department of Animal & Food Sciences University of Delaware, Newark DE, 19717, USA
²⁸Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
²⁹Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Department of Neurobiology,
Box 3209, Durham, NC 27710, USA
³⁰Department of Environmental Health Science and Georgia Genomics Facility, Environmental Health
Science Building, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA

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: Genomics, evolution, Crocodylia, Archosauria, amniote

SREL Reprint #3209