Corroboree frogs comprise two species native to the Southern Tablelands of Australia: Southern corroboree frog (Pseudophryne corroboree; this sample) and the Northern corroboree frog (Pseudophryne pengilleyi). Both species are small, poisonous ground-dwelling frogs, and are unique among frogs in that they produce their own poison rather than obtain it from their food source as is the case in every other poisonous frog species (from Wikipedia entry). The species are critically endangered of becoming extinct. The sequence data for this sample is from a female, bred in captivity, in Melbourne, Australia, as part of the conservation program. This sample was collected by Lee Berger, and the project was coordinated by Berger, Andrew Crawford, Lee Skerratt, Tiffany Kosch, and others, for annotation of a high-quality reference genome for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP). Sequencing was conducted at the Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL) at the Rockefeller University, led by Erich D. Jarvis, Giulio Formenti, and Jennifer Balacco.
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