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SUBMITTER: Chen N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3428670 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Nancy N Bellott Daniel W DW Page David C DC Clark Andrew G AG
BMC genomics 20120514
<h4>Background</h4>The female-specific W chromosomes and male-specific Y chromosomes have proven difficult to assemble with whole-genome shotgun methods, creating a demand for new approaches to identify sequence contigs specific to these sex chromosomes. Here, we develop and apply a novel method for identifying sequences that are W-specific.<h4>Results</h4>Using the Illumina Genome Analyzer, we generated sequence reads from a male domestic chicken (ZZ) and mapped them to the existing female (ZW) ...[more]