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The Genome Sequence of Taurine Cattle: A Window to Ruminant Biology and Evolution

Overview of attention for article published in Science, April 2009
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Article details
Title
The Genome Sequence of Taurine Cattle: A Window to Ruminant Biology and Evolution
Published in
Science, April 2009
DOI 10.1126/science.1169588
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Authors

The Bovine Genome Sequencing and Analysis Consortium, Christine G. Elsik, Ross L. Tellam, Kim C. Worley, Richard A. Gibbs, Donna M. Muzny, George M. Weinstock, David L. Adelson, Evan E. Eichler, Laura Elnitski, Roderic Guigó, Debora L. Hamernik, Steve M. Kappes, Harris A. Lewin, David J. Lynn, Frank W. Nicholas, Alexandre Reymond, Monique Rijnkels, Loren C. Skow, Evgeny M. Zdobnov, Lawrence Schook, James Womack, Tyler Alioto, Stylianos E. Antonarakis, Alex Astashyn, Charles E. Chapple, Hsiu-Chuan Chen, Jacqueline Chrast, Francisco Câmara, Olga Ermolaeva, Charlotte N. Henrichsen, Wratko Hlavina, Yuri Kapustin, Boris Kiryutin, Paul Kitts, Felix Kokocinski, Melissa Landrum, Donna Maglott, Kim Pruitt, Victor Sapojnikov, Stephen M. Searle, Victor Solovyev, Alexandre Souvorov, Catherine Ucla, Carine Wyss, Juan M. Anzola, Daniel Gerlach, Eran Elhaik, Dan Graur, Justin T. Reese, Robert C. Edgar, John C. McEwan, Gemma M. Payne, Joy M. Raison, Thomas Junier, Evgenia V. Kriventseva, Eduardo Eyras, Mireya Plass, Ravikiran Donthu, Denis M. Larkin, James Reecy, Mary Q. Yang, Lin Chen, Ze Cheng, Carol G. Chitko-McKown, George E. Liu, Lakshmi K. Matukumalli, Jiuzhou Song, Bin Zhu, Daniel G. Bradley, Fiona S.L. Brinkman, Lilian P.L. Lau, Matthew D. Whiteside, Angela Walker, Thomas T. Wheeler, Theresa Casey, J. Bruce German, Danielle G. Lemay, Nauman J. Maqbool, Adrian J. Molenaar, Seongwon Seo, Paul Stothard, Cynthia L. Baldwin, Rebecca Baxter, Candice L. Brinkmeyer-Langford, Wendy C. Brown, Christopher P. Childers, Timothy Connelley, Shirley A. Ellis, Krista Fritz, Elizabeth J. Glass, Carolyn T.A. Herzig, Antti Iivanainen, Kevin K. Lahmers, Anna K. Bennett, C. Michael Dickens, James G.R. Gilbert, Darren E. Hagen, Hanni Salih, Jan Aerts, Alexandre R. Caetano, Brian Dalrymple, Jose Fernando Garcia, Clare A. Gill, Stefan G. Hiendleder, Erdogan Memili, Diane Spurlock, John L. Williams, Lee Alexander, Michael J. Brownstein, Leluo Guan, Robert A. Holt, Steven J.M. Jones, Marco A. Marra, Richard Moore, Stephen S. Moore, Andy Roberts, Masaaki Taniguchi, Richard C. Waterman, Joseph Chacko, Mimi M. Chandrabose, Andy Cree, Marvin Diep Dao, Huyen H. Dinh, Ramatu Ayiesha Gabisi, Sandra Hines, Jennifer Hume, Shalini N. Jhangiani, Vandita Joshi, Christie L. Kovar, Lora R. Lewis, Yih-shin Liu, John Lopez, Margaret B. Morgan, Ngoc Bich Nguyen, Geoffrey O. Okwuonu, San Juana Ruiz, Jireh Santibanez, Rita A. Wright, Christian Buhay, Yan Ding, Shannon Dugan-Rocha, Judith Herdandez, Michael Holder, Aniko Sabo, Amy Egan, Jason Goodell, Katarzyna Wilczek-Boney, Gerald R. Fowler, Matthew Edward Hitchens, Ryan J. Lozado, Charles Moen, David Steffen, James T. Warren, Jingkun Zhang, Readman Chiu, Jacqueline E. Schein, K. James Durbin, Paul Havlak, Huaiyang Jiang, Yue Liu, Xiang Qin, Yanru Ren, Yufeng Shen, Henry Song, Stephanie Nicole Bell, Clay Davis, Angela Jolivet Johnson, Sandra Lee, Lynne V. Nazareth, Bella Mayurkumar Patel, Ling-Ling Pu, Selina Vattathil, Rex Lee Williams, Stacey Curry, Cerissa Hamilton, Erica Sodergren, David A. Wheeler, Wes Barris, Gary L. Bennett, André Eggen, Ronnie D. Green, Gregory P. Harhay, Matthew Hobbs, Oliver Jann, John W. Keele, Matthew P. Kent, Sigbjørn Lien, Stephanie D. McKay, Sean McWilliam, Abhirami Ratnakumar, Robert D. Schnabel, Timothy Smith, Warren M. Snelling, Tad S. Sonstegard, Roger T. Stone, Yoshikazu Sugimoto, Akiko Takasuga, Jeremy F. Taylor, Curtis P. Van Tassell, Michael D. MacNeil, Antonio R.R. Abatepaulo, Colette A. Abbey, Virpi Ahola, Iassudara G. Almeida, Ariel F. Amadio, Elen Anatriello, Suria M. Bahadue, Fernando H. Biase, Clayton R. Boldt, Jeffery A. Carroll, Wanessa A. Carvalho, Eliane P. Cervelatti, Elsa Chacko, Jennifer E. Chapin, Ye Cheng, Jungwoo Choi, Adam J. Colley, Tatiana A. de Campos, Marcos De Donato, Isabel K.F. de Miranda Santos, Carlo J.F. de Oliveira, Heather Deobald, Eve Devinoy, Kaitlin E. Donohue, Peter Dovc, Annett Eberlein, Carolyn J. Fitzsimmons, Alessandra M. Franzin, Gustavo R. Garcia, Sem Genini, Cody J. Gladney, Jason R. Grant, Marion L. Greaser, Jonathan A. Green, Darryl L. Hadsell, Hatam A. Hakimov, Rob Halgren, Jennifer L. Harrow, Elizabeth A. Hart, Nicola Hastings, Marta Hernandez, Zhi-Liang Hu, Aaron Ingham, Terhi Iso-Touru, Catherine Jamis, Kirsty Jensen, Dimos Kapetis, Tovah Kerr, Sari S. Khalil, Hasan Khatib, Davood Kolbehdari, Charu G. Kumar, Dinesh Kumar, Richard Leach, Justin C-M Lee, Changxi Li, Krystin M. Logan, Roberto Malinverni, Elisa Marques, William F. Martin, Natalia F. Martins, Sandra R. Maruyama, Raffaele Mazza, Kim L. McLean, Juan F. Medrano, Barbara T. Moreno, Daniela D. Moré, Carl T. Muntean, Hari P. Nandakumar, Marcelo F.G. Nogueira, Ingrid Olsaker, Sameer D. Pant, Francesca Panzitta, Rosemeire C.P. Pastor, Mario A. Poli, Nathan Poslusny, Satyanarayana Rachagani, Shoba Ranganathan, Andrej Razpet, Penny K. Riggs, Gonzalo Rincon, Nelida Rodriguez-Osorio, Sandra L. Rodriguez-Zas, Natasha E. Romero, Anne Rosenwald, Lillian Sando, Sheila M. Schmutz, Libing Shen, Laura Sherman, Bruce R. Southey, Ylva Strandberg Lutzow, Jonathan V. Sweedler, Imke Tammen, Bhanu Prakash V.L. Telugu, Jennifer M. Urbanski, Yuri T. Utsunomiya, Chris P. Verschoor, Ashley J. Waardenberg, Zhiquan Wang, Robert Ward, Rosemarie Weikard, Thomas H. Welsh, Stephen N. White, Laurens G. Wilming, Kris R. Wunderlich, Jianqi Yang, Feng-Qi Zhao

Abstract

To understand the biology and evolution of ruminants, the cattle genome was sequenced to about sevenfold coverage. The cattle genome contains a minimum of 22,000 genes, with a core set of 14,345 orthologs shared among seven mammalian species of which 1217 are absent or undetected in noneutherian (marsupial or monotreme) genomes. Cattle-specific evolutionary breakpoint regions in chromosomes have a higher density of segmental duplications, enrichment of repetitive elements, and species-specific variations in genes associated with lactation and immune responsiveness. Genes involved in metabolism are generally highly conserved, although five metabolic genes are deleted or extensively diverged from their human orthologs. The cattle genome sequence thus provides a resource for understanding mammalian evolution and accelerating livestock genetic improvement for milk and meat production.

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Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 11 1%
Brazil 9 1%
United Kingdom 9 1%
Spain 8 <1%
Germany 6 <1%
Belgium 3 <1%
Poland 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Italy 2 <1%
Other 22 2%
Unknown 824 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 206 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 170 19%
Student > Master 82 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 56 6%
Professor 55 6%
Other 169 19%
Unknown 160 18%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 437 49%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 98 11%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 40 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 28 3%
Computer Science 18 2%
Other 100 11%
Unknown 177 20%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 96. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 August 2026.
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#544,189
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Outputs from Science
#12,398
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Outputs of similar age from Science
#25
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