Erythrolamprus reginae (royal ground snake) genome, rEryReg1

The royal ground snake (Erythrolamprus reginae) is in the family Colubridae of snakes. This species is endemic to northern South America, and is non-venomous. This sample was collected by Valeria Ramirez Castaneda in the Rebecca D. Tarvin Lab at UC Berkley, from a female in Southern Colombia, in an Amazon forest area, and used to generate a 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.