Journal article
The Genome Sequence of Taurine Cattle: A Window to Ruminant Biology and Evolution
Abstract
To understand the biology and evolution of ruminants, the cattle genome was sequenced to about sevenfold coverage. The cattle genome contains a minimum of 22,000 genes, with a core set of 14,345 orthologs shared among seven mammalian species of which 1217 are absent or undetected in noneutherian (marsupial or monotreme) genomes. Cattle-specific evolutionary breakpoint regions in chromosomes have a higher density of segmental duplications, …
Authors
Consortium TBGSAA; Elsik CG; Tellam RL; Worley KC; Gibbs RA; Muzny DM; Weinstock GM; Adelson DL; Eichler EE; Elnitski L
Journal
Science, Vol. 324, No. 5926, pp. 522–528
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Publication Date
April 24, 2009
DOI
10.1126/science.1169588
ISSN
0036-8075