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genome projects: Bos taurus

Prominent genome projects: Bos taurus

Bos taurus (cow) is an agriculturally important animal and an important model organism for health research. As a non-primate, non-rodent eutherian genome the cow genome will be useful for comparative genomics.

Sequencing (whole genome shotgun approach) of the bovine genome began in December 2003 by researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center in Houston (TX). A first draft of the bovine genome sequence was published in 2004.

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