Table 4

Summary of map contig coverage of bovine chromosomes

Chromosome

No. of contigs

Estimated size (Mbp)*

Genome assembly size (Mbp)

Syntenic human chromosomes

Human genome coverage (Mbp)^†

1

16

186

146

3, 21

155

2

10

160

125

1,2,15

135

3

11

145

116

1,2

118

4

12

141

110

7

119

5

18

143

118

12,22

115

6

19

135

111

4

117

7

14

135

100

1,5,19

105

8

11

129

103

4,8,9

106

9

15

128

95

6

108

10

8

121

95

5,14,15

98

11

16

123

101

2,9

113

12

15

108

77

13

91

13

8

104

83

10,20

91

14

11

97

82

8

96

15

13

101

75

11

75

16

11

98

72

1

76

17

8

92

70

4,12,22

81

18

11

82

62

16,19

70

19

12

78

63

17

70

20

5

83

68

5

75

21

7

80

63

14,15

63

22

2

73

59

3

63

23

10

62

48

6

56

24

12

73

60

18

71

25

10

54

42

7,16

49

26

5

58

47

10

51

27

2

48

43

4,8

41

28

3

52

40

1,10

44

29

5

61

45

11

44

X

79

138

99

X

119

Total

379

3088

2434

2616

*Size estimated from clone fingerprint data. ^†Based on span of BES alignments to the reference human genome sequence.

Snelling et al. Genome Biology 2007 8:R165   doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-8-r165