Unlocking the bovine genome

doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-193

BMC Genomics. 2009; 10: 193.

Published online 2009 April 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-193

PMCID: PMC2680899

Unlocking the bovine genome

Ross L Tellam,¹ Danielle G Lemay,² Curtis P Van Tassell,³ Harris A Lewin,⁴ Kim C Worley,⁵ and Christine G Elsik⁶

¹CSIRO Livestock Industries, 306 Carmody Rd, St Lucia 4067, QLD, Australia

²Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, USA

³Bovine Functional Genomics laboratory, USDA/ARS, BARC-East, Beltsville, MD, 20705, USA

⁴Institute for Genomic Biology and Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

⁵Human Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, MS BCM226, Houston, TX 77030, USA

⁶Department of Biology, 406 Reiss, 37th & O Streets NW, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA

Corresponding author.

Ross L Tellam: ross.tellam/at/csiro.au; Danielle G Lemay: dglemay/at/ucdavis.edu; Curtis P Van Tassell: Curt.VanTassell/at/ars.usda.gov; Harris A Lewin: h-lewin/at/uiuc.edu; Kim C Worley: kworley/at/bcm.edu; Christine G Elsik: ce75/at/georgetown.edu

Received April 20, 2009; Accepted April 24, 2009.

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Abstract

The draft genome sequence of cattle (Bos taurus) has now been analyzed by the Bovine Genome Sequencing and Analysis Consortium and the Bovine HapMap Consortium, which together represent an extensive collaboration involving more than 300 scientists from 25 different countries.

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