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Understanding Bos taurus’s genome

April 24th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments

An analysis of the domesticated cattle genome was published yesterday. The sequence is from a single Hereford cow, L1 Dominette, and represents the first livestock animal to be sequenced and analyzed. The project was funded by the USDA and NIH. In the NIH press release, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsak relates: “The cattle industry [...]

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Tags:genome, NCBI, NIH, research, sequence, USDA