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This article is part of a series on Bovine: the companion papers for the publication of the bovine genome sequence.

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Unlocking the bovine genome

Ross L Tellam1 email, Danielle G Lemay2 email, Curtis P Van Tassell3 email, Harris A Lewin4 email, Kim C Worley5 email and Christine G Elsik6 email

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

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BMC Genomics 2009, 10:193doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-193

Published: 24 April 2009

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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