Stephanie D. McKay

TL;DR: To understand the biology and evolution of ruminants, the cattle genome was sequenced to about sevenfold coverage and provides a resource for understanding mammalian evolution and accelerating livestock genetic improvement for milk and meat production.

TL;DR: It is argued that cattle migration, movement and trading followed by admixture have been important forces in shaping modern bovine genomic variation.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that improved continuity of assembled sequence warrants the adoption of ARS-UCD1.2 as the new cattle reference genome and that increased assembly accuracy will benefit future research on this species.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that 30,000–50,000 loci will be needed to conduct whole genome association studies in cattle, based on a much larger sample of marker loci and across eight breeds of cattle.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that a genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping platform designed for one species can be used to genotype ancient DNA from an extinct species and DNA from species diverged up to 29 million years ago and that the produced genotypes can beused to resolve the phylogeny for this rapidly radiated infraorder.