More than six years in the making, costing untold millions, the fully sequenced genome of A. carolinensis is coming soon to a journal near you. After many promised delivery dates have come and gone, a blockbuster draft manuscript has finally arrived in the hands of its coauthors. Hopefully, things now will move expeditiously and the paper will be published before too much longer, at last bringing the genetic wonders of anoles to the world at large.

Jonathan Losos