title: In silco mapping of ESTs from the turkey (Meleagris gallopavo).
abstract: Sequence similarity was used to predict the position of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) in the genome of the turkey (Meleagris gallopavo). Turkey EST sequences were compared with the draft assembly of the chicken whole-genome sequence and the chicken EST database by BLASTN. Among the 877 ESTs examined, 788 had significant matches in the chicken genome sequence. Position of orthologous sequences in the chicken genome and the predicted position of the EST loci in the turkey genome are presented Genetic assignments suggest a high level of accuracy for the COMPASS predictions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA. reedx054@umn.edu
authors.forename: Kent M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Reed
authors.forename: Todd P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Knutson
authors.forename: Stacy B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Krueth
authors.forename: Laura R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Sullivan
authors.forename: Lee D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Chaves
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002645:Chickens / Q000235:genetics; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D016678:Genome; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D014422:Turkeys / Q000235:genetics*