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The wolf reference genome sequence (Canis lupus lupus) and its implications for Canis spp. population genomics

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Genomics, June 2017
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Title
The wolf reference genome sequence (Canis lupus lupus) and its implications for Canis spp. population genomics
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BMC Genomics, June 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12864-017-3883-3
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Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Jose A. Samaniego Castruita, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Lukas F. K. Kuderna, Jannikke Räikkönen, Bent Petersen, Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten, Greger Larson, Ludovic Orlando, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Anders J. Hansen, Love Dalén, M. Thomas P. Gilbert

Abstract

An increasing number of studies are addressing the evolutionary genomics of dog domestication, principally through resequencing dog, wolf and related canid genomes. There is, however, only one de novo assembled canid genome currently available against which to map such data - that of a boxer dog (Canis lupus familiaris). We generated the first de novo wolf genome (Canis lupus lupus) as an additional choice of reference, and explored what implications may arise when previously published dog and wolf resequencing data are remapped to this reference. Reassuringly, we find that regardless of the reference genome choice, most evolutionary genomic analyses yield qualitatively similar results, including those exploring the structure between the wolves and dogs using admixture and principal component analysis. However, we do observe differences in the genomic coverage of re-mapped samples, the number of variants discovered, and heterozygosity estimates of the samples. In conclusion, the choice of reference is dictated by the aims of the study being undertaken; if the study focuses on the differences between the different dog breeds or the fine structure among dogs, then using the boxer reference genome is appropriate, but if the aim of the study is to look at the variation within wolves and their relationships to dogs, then there are clear benefits to using the de novo assembled wolf reference genome.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 24%
Researcher 26 17%
Student > Master 22 14%
Student > Bachelor 15 10%
Other 8 5%
Other 12 8%
Unknown 36 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 52 33%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 48 31%
Environmental Science 4 3%
Computer Science 3 2%
Arts and Humanities 3 2%
Other 10 6%
Unknown 36 23%
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