A physical map of the bovine genome

Table 4 Summary of map contig coverage of bovine chromosomes

Chromosome	No. of contigs	Estimated size (Mbp)*	Genome assembly size (Mbp)	Syntenic human chromosomes	Human genome coverage (Mbp)^†
1	16	186	146	3, 21	155
2	10	160	125	1,2,15	135
3	11	145	116	1,2	118
4	12	141	110	7	119
5	18	143	118	12,22	115
6	19	135	111	4	117
7	14	135	100	1,5,19	105
8	11	129	103	4,8,9	106
9	15	128	95	6	108
10	8	121	95	5,14,15	98
11	16	123	101	2,9	113
12	15	108	77	13	91
13	8	104	83	10,20	91
14	11	97	82	8	96
15	13	101	75	11	75
16	11	98	72	1	76
17	8	92	70	4,12,22	81
18	11	82	62	16,19	70
19	12	78	63	17	70
20	5	83	68	5	75
21	7	80	63	14,15	63
22	2	73	59	3	63
23	10	62	48	6	56
24	12	73	60	18	71
25	10	54	42	7,16	49
26	5	58	47	10	51
27	2	48	43	4,8	41
28	3	52	40	1,10	44
29	5	61	45	11	44
X	79	138	99	X	119
Total	379	3088	2434		2616

*Size estimated from clone fingerprint data. ^†Based on span of BES alignments to the reference human genome sequence.

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