A physical map of the chicken genome. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Strategies for assembling large, complex genomes have evolved to include a combination of whole-genome shotgun sequencing and hierarchal map-assisted sequencing. Whole-genome maps of all types can aid genome assemblies, generally starting with low-resolution cytogenetic maps and ending with the highest resolution of sequence. Fingerprint clone maps are based upon complete restriction enzyme digests of clones representative of the target genome, and ultimately comprise a near-contiguous path of clones across the genome. Such clone-based maps are used to validate sequence assembly order, supply long-range linking information for assembled sequences, anchor sequences to the genetic map and provide templates for closing gaps. Fingerprint maps are also a critical resource for subsequent functional genomic studies, because they provide a redundant and ordered sampling of the genome with clones. In an accompanying paper we describe the draft genome sequence of the chicken, Gallus gallus, the first species sequenced that is both a model organism and a global food source. Here we present a clone-based physical map of the chicken genome at 20-fold coverage, containing 260 contigs of overlapping clones. This map represents approximately 91% of the chicken genome and enables identification of chicken clones aligned to positions in other sequenced genomes.

published proceedings

  • Nature

altmetric score

  • 8.176

author list (cited authors)

  • Wallis, J. W., Aerts, J., Groenen, M., Crooijmans, R., Layman, D., Graves, T. A., ... Warren, W. C.

citation count

  • 174

complete list of authors

  • Wallis, John W||Aerts, Jan||Groenen, Martien AM||Crooijmans, Richard PMA||Layman, Dan||Graves, Tina A||Scheer, Debra E||Kremitzki, Colin||Fedele, Mary J||Mudd, Nancy K||Cardenas, Marco||Higginbotham, Jamey||Carter, Jason||McGrane, Rebecca||Gaige, Tony||Mead, Kelly||Walker, Jason||Albracht, Derek||Davito, Jonathan||Yang, Shiaw-Pyng||Leong, Shin||Chinwalla, Asif||Sekhon, Mandeep||Wylie, Kristine||Dodgson, Jerry||Romanov, Michael N||Cheng, Hans||de Jong, Pieter J||Osoegawa, Kazutoyo||Nefedov, Mikhail||Zhang, Hongbin||McPherson, John D||Krzywinski, Martin||Schein, Jacquie||Hillier, Ladeana||Mardis, Elaine R||Wilson, Richard K||Warren, Wesley C

publication date

  • January 2004

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