A Multi-Platform Draft de novo Genome Assembly and Comparative Analysis for the Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Seabury, Christopher M ^a   Dowd, Scot E ^b   Seabury, Paul M ^c   Raudsepp, Terje ^a   Brightsmith, Donald J ^a   Liboriussen, Poul ^d   Halley, Yvette ^a   Fisher, Colleen A ^a   Owens, Elaine ^a   Viswanathan, Ganesh ^a   Tizard, Ian R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Molecular Research LP   (United States)

^c ElanTech Inc   (United States)

^d CLC bio ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARA MACAO; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; COGNITION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DNA DATA BANK OF JAPAN; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBL NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE DATABASE; GENBANK; GENE FUSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOME ASSEMBLY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; INTELLIGENCE; KARYOTYPE EVOLUTION; LONGEVITY; MACROCHROMOSOME; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; OUTBRED STRAIN; PARROT; SCARLET MACAW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPEECH; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTELLIGENCE; KARYOTYPING; LONGEVITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARROTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84877301559     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062415     Document Type: Article

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