Archibald, Alan L, Smith, Timothy P L, Watson, Mick, Tuggle, Christopher K, Tseng, Elizabeth, Talbot, Richard, Skinner, Ben M, Schwartz, Ariel S, Schroeder, Steven G, Schook, Lawrence B, and others. (2020) An improved pig reference genome sequence to enable pig genetics and genomics research. GigaScience, 9 (6). ISSN 2047-217X. (doi:10.1093/gigascience/giaa051) (KAR id:81763)
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Abstract
Background: The domestic pig (Sus scrofa) is important both as a food source and as a biomedical model given its similarity in size, anatomy, physiology, metabolism, pathology, and pharmacology to humans. The draft reference genome (Sscrofa10.2) of a purebred Duroc female pig established using older clone-based sequencing methods was incomplete, and unresolved redundancies, short-range order and orientation errors, and associated misassembled genes limited its utility. Results: We present 2 annotated highly contiguous chromosome-level genome assemblies created with more recent long-read technologies and a whole-genome shotgun strategy, 1 for the same Duroc female (Sscrofa11.1) and 1 for an outbred, composite-breed male (USMARCv1.0). Both assemblies are of substantially higher (>90-fold) continuity and accuracy than Sscrofa10.2. Conclusions: These highly contiguous assemblies plus annotation of a further 11 short-read assemblies provide an unprecedented view of the genetic make-up of this important agricultural and biomedical model species. We propose that the improved Duroc assembly (Sscrofa11.1) become the reference genome for genomic research in pigs.
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| DOI/Identification number: | 10.1093/gigascience/giaa051 |
| Uncontrolled keywords: | pig genomes; reference assembly; pig; genome annotation |
| Subjects: | Q Science |
| Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Biosciences |
| Depositing User: | Susan Davies |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jun 2020 10:44 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 12:47 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/81763 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
University of Kent Author Information
O'Connor, Rebecca.
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Griffin, Darren K..
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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7595-3226
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