Summary

The Genome Sciences Centre, Vancouver, BC has constructed a BAC-based fingerprint map of the bovine genome. This effort is funded jointly by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Alberta Science and Research Authority (ASRA). The resulting map is expected to be an important resource for the field of bovine genomics. The current map consists of a total of 294,651 whole-clone HindIII fingerprints from 3 BAC libraries: RPCI-42 (constructed by P. de Jong from the Holstein Bull white blood cell DNA), CHORI-240 (constructed by P. de Jong from the Hereford Bull white blood cell), and TAMBT (constructed by Texas A&M from the Angus bull/Angus cow DNA). We are using an improved agarose gel methodology which has been used to construct a high-resolution BAC-based fingerprint map of the mouse genome here at the Genome Sciences Centre.

The Genome Sciences Centre would specifically like to acknowledge Dr. Steve Kappes (USDA), Dr. Steve Moore (University of Alberta), and Dr. Bob Church (ASRA) for their seminal contributions and support for this effort.

Clone Nomenclature

Sources of Marker Data

Dr. Steve Moore (University of Alberta)
Drs. Clare Gill and David Adelson (Animal Science Department, Texas A&M University)

Related Bovine Mapping Sites

CSIRO, Australia

Supplementary Information

TAMU BAC end sequence name look-up table