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SUBMITTER: Peng X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4262547 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature biotechnology 20141117 12
The domestic ferret (Mustela putorius furo) is an important animal model for multiple human respiratory diseases. It is considered the 'gold standard' for modeling human influenza virus infection and transmission. Here we describe the 2.41 Gb draft genome assembly of the domestic ferret, constituting 2.28 Gb of sequence plus gaps. We annotated 19,910 protein-coding genes on this assembly using RNA-seq data from 21 ferret tissues. We characterized the ferret host response to two influenza virus i ...[more]