Table 1 Various sequenced livestock genomes
From: Current status and future perspectives for sequencing livestock genomes
Animal | Species | Genome size | Sequencing methods | Recent release version | Sequencing center |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chicken | Gallus gallus | 1.2 Gb (39 chromosome pairs) | Bacteria Artificial Chromosomes (BAC), fosmid, and plasmid-based whole genome shotgun (WGS) | NCBI build 2.1 | Washington University Genome Sequencing Center |
Pig | Sus scrofa | 2.7 Gb (18 autosomes, X and Y sex chromosomes) | Clone based | NCBI build 3.1 | The Swine Genome Sequencing Consortium |
Cow | Bos taurus/B.indicus | 2.86 billion base pair | Mixture of hierarchical and whole-genome shotgun | UMD_3.1 | The original sequencing was conducted at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, but the genome was reassembled by Salzberg lab in Baltimore, Maryland |
| Â | Â | Â | 7.15x mixed assembly of whole-genome shotgun and BAC sequence | Btau_4.2 | Bovine Genome Sequencing Project led by the Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center in Houston, Texas |
Sheep | Ovis aries | 2.71 Gb (91% of sheep genome) | WGS | OARv2.0 (working draft) | International Sheep Genomics Consortium |
Horse | Equus caballus | 2.4-2.7 Gb | 6.79x WGS | EquCab2.0 | The Broad Institute and the Horse Genome Project |