Thursday, April 30, 2015

Cats are on the Map




Cats have finally made their way into the spot light of gene sequencing. Thanks to a team of geneticists lead by Leslie Lyons of the University of Missouri the complete genome of 56 domestic cats of have been sequenced. The team’s results were unveiled at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference in San Diego, California in January of 2015 although their project is still ongoing.

The 99 Lives Cat Genome Sequencing Initiative began in 2007 with Cinnamon, a four year old Abyssinian cat whose linage is well known and can be traced back several generations. It is now known that there are 20,285 putative genes on 19 chromosomes in the cat genome. It costs around $7,500 to sequence one cat. Several different species have been sequenced so far and the team is still working on reaching their goal of 99 cat genomes. 
FCA-Ideo
The cat karyotype 

cats, cats, cats. <3 

1 comment:

  1. This is a cool article because pet lineage is a very important for animal breeders. Also, your tags are fantastic. :3

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