Genome Sequence Sheep Are Very

Genome Sequence

Sheep are very important farm animals that produce meat and wool for the human race. They are very closely related to cattle, which is good and bad for researchers who are studying genome sequencing. "Genome wide sets of universal probes have been designed [16], and in theory they could be used to construct whole genome contigs from large BAC libraries, with limited use of comparative genomics. However, BAC paired end mapping to the human, mouse, and rat genome sequences has been used to identify large scale rearrangements in the respective genomes [17]. This suggests that a similar approach could be applied to identify rearrangements in an organism with an unsequenced genome, if genome sequences from closely related species were available. The increasing number of complete and near complete genome sequences of other mammals suggests that a BAC end sequence and comparative genomics 'scaffolding' strategy might approach the resolution and accuracy of fingerprinting large BAC libraries" (Using comparative genomics to reorder the human genome sequence into a virtual sheep genome 2007). With understanding the sequencing, researchers have seen genes that may help differentiate M. paratuberculosis from other closely related bacterial species (Scientists Crack Genome Sequence Of Major Dairy Pathogen 2002), which means it may shed some light on the fact there is a disease among cows, sheep and pigs that could help researchers to investigate human genome sequences.

America is the melting pot of the whole world, the New World, seen by the rest of the world as the land of opportunity, the land of the free, the green pastures, and the crossroads where virtually all nationalities and races meet. The disease is being found in dairy and other farming species is a bacterium that causes a chronic gastrointestinal infection (Scientists Crack Genome Sequence Of Major Dairy Pathogen 2002). "M. paratuberculosis is a slow-growing bacterium that causes a chronic gastrointestinal infection in dairy cattle and other small ruminant species (such as sheep, goat, and deer) and has both serious health and economic consequences to dairy farming worldwide. While the bacterium has been recognized to cause Johne's disease for more than 100 years, methods for satisfactory diagnosis, treatment and prevention are lacking" (Scientists Crack Genome Sequence Of Major Dairy Pathogen 2002). This problem would not have aroused studies and researches a few centuries ago. This study would not have been conducted in other countries because almost all the world's countries and their people possess unifying attributes that make them distinct and unmistakable for any other nationality, race, culture and language. Therefore, by understanding that sheep's make up is a valuable organism whose genome has been sequenced so that there is a greater knowledge of human make up.