bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.03.971721; this version posted May 20, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 A draft genome assembly of the eastern banjo frog Limnodynastes dumerilii 2 dumerilii (Anura: Limnodynastidae) 3 Qiye Li1,2, Qunfei Guo1,3, Yang Zhou1, Huishuang Tan1,4, Terry Bertozzi5,6, Yuanzhen Zhu1,7, 4 Ji Li2,8, Stephen Donnellan5, Guojie Zhang2,8,9,10* 5 6 1 BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China 7 2 State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, 8 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China 9 3 College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 10 Wuhan 430074, China 11 4 Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 12 Chengdu 611731, China 13 5 South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide 5000, Australia 14 6 School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide 5005, 15 Australia 16 7 School of Basic Medicine, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China 17 8 China National Genebank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518120, China 18 9 Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 650223, Kunming, China 20 10 Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, DK- 21 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark 22 * Correspondence:
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