Genome wide SNP discovery, analysis and evaluation in mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Next generation sequencing technologies allow to obtain at low cost the genomic sequence information that currently lacks for most economically and ecologically important organisms. For the mallard duck genomic data is limited. The mallard is, besides a species of large agricultural and societal importance, also the focal species when it comes to long distance dispersal of Avian Influenza. For large scale identification of SNPs we performed Illumina sequencing of wild mallard DNA and compared our data with ongoing genome and EST sequencing of domesticated conspecifics. This is the first study of its kind for waterfowl.

Results

More than one billion base pairs of sequence information were generated resulting in a 16× coverage of a reduced representation library of

SUBMITTER: Kraus RH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3065436 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature