An agency effort to sequence genomes: unraveling the genome of the honey bee, pig, cow, and chicken

Agricultural Research, Jan, 2005 by David Elstein, Don Comis, Jan Suszkiw, Alfredo Flores

Rohrer is part of the Swine Genome Sequencing Consortium, which features representatives from governmental agencies and universities from around the world. The group is still developing strategy on coordinating the eventual sequencing work. They are also working to secure funding for the project.

This research is part of Food Animal Production, an ARS National Program (#101) described all the World Wide Web at www.nps.ars.usda.gov.

Hans H. Cheng is with the USDA-ARS Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory, 3606 E. Mount Hope Rd., East Lansing, MI 48823: phone (517) 337-6758, fax (517) 337-6776, e-mail hcheng@msu.edu.

Jay D. Evans is with the USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory, 10300 Baltimore Ave., Bldg. 476, BARC-East, Beltsville, MD 20705; phone (301) 504-5143, fax (301) 504-8736, e-mail evansj@ba.ars.usda.gov.

Katherine Aronstein is with the USDA-ARS Kika de la Garza Subtropical Agricultural Research Center, 2413 E. Highway 83, #213, Weslaco, TX 78596; phone (956) 969-5008, fax (956) 969-5033, e-mail karonst@weslaco.ars.usda.gov.

Gary A. Rohrer is with the USDA-ARS Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, Spur 18D, Clay Center, NE 68933; phone (402) 762-4365, fax (402) 762-4390, e-mail rohrer@email.marc.usda.gov.

Steven M. Kappes is with the ARS National Program Staff, 5601 Sunnyside Ave., Beltsville, MD 20705-5140; phone (301) 504-5084, fax (301) 504-7302, e-mail smk@ars.usda.gov.