Pigs join the ranks of domesticated animals with sequenced genomes
November 15, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Champaign, Ill. — Dogs, cats, horses, cows, and now pigs. A first draft of the swine genome has been mapped, according to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The pig whose genes have been sequenced is a red-haired Duroc from a farm at the University of Illinois.
Most of the sequencing was performed at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, based in Hinxton, England, but help was provided by scientists and genome-sequencing centers around the world. Funding was a global effort as well, with the $24.3 million bill to complete the sequencing footed by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the USDA Agricultural Research Service, and American, Asian, and European funders….more
