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De novo assembly and annotation of the North American bison (Bison bison) reference genome and subsequent variant identification.
Animal genetics - 1 Jun 2021
Dobson L K, Zimin A, Bayles D, Fritz-Waters E, Alt D, Olsen S, Blanchong J, Reecy J, Smith T P L, Derr J N
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Genomic tools have improved the ability to manage bison populations and enhanced efforts to conserve this iconic species. These tools have been particularly useful for detecting introgression of cattle genome within bison herds but are limited by the need to use the cattle genome as a surrogate for mapping reads. This complicates efforts to distinguish the species of origin of chromosomal segments in individual...
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