Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Haplotype-resolved genomes provide insights into structural variation and gene content in Angus and Brahman cattle

  • Wai Yee Low,
  • Rick Tearle,
  • Ruijie Liu,
  • Sergey Koren,
  • Arang Rhie,
  • Derek M. Bickhart,
  • Benjamin D. Rosen,
  • Zev N. Kronenberg,
  • Sarah B. Kingan,
  • Elizabeth Tseng,
  • Françoise Thibaud-Nissen,
  • Fergal J. Martin,
  • Konstantinos Billis,
  • Jay Ghurye,
  • Alex R. Hastie,
  • Joyce Lee,
  • Andy W. C. Pang,
  • Michael P. Heaton,
  • Adam M. Phillippy,
  • Stefan Hiendleder,
  • Timothy P. L. Smith,
  • John L. Williams

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15848-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Taurine and indicine cattle have different desirable traits making them better adapted to different climates across the world. Here, Low et al. describe a pipeline to produce haplotype-resolved, chromosome-level genomes of Angus and Brahman cattle breeds from a crossbred individual and report on comparisons of the two genomes.