Disentangling river and swamp buffalo genetic diversity: initial insights from the 1000 Buffalo Genomes Project.

ABSTRACT: More people in the world depend on water buffalo for their livelihoods than on any other domesticated animals, but its genetics is still not extensively explored. The 1000 Buffalo Genomes Project (1000BGP) provides genetic resources for global buffalo population study and tools to breed more sustainable and productive buffaloes. Here we report the most contiguous swamp buffalo genome assembly (PCC_UOA_SB_1v2) with substantial resolution of telomeric and centromeric repeats, ∼4-fold more contiguous than the existing reference river buffalo assembly and exceeding a recently published male swamp buffalo genome. This assembly was used along with the current reference to align 140 water buffalo short-read sequences and produce a public genetic resource with an average of ∼41 million single nucl

SUBMITTER: Pineda PS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11382405 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature