Turkey

Assembly

Turkey_2.01 is an assembly of the domesticated turkey genome. The first sequences have been generated with the GS-Titanium platform in VBI's (Virginia Bioinformatics Institute) Core Lab. Additionally, the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) Beltsville group provided 30x coverage with Illumina 70 bp reads. And the Salzberg group at UMD (University of Maryland) assisted with assembly and annotation of the integrated 454/Illumina/BAC end sequence data set into a "draft genome sequence". The whole composite covers 90% of the genome.

The turkey genome is composed of 33 chromosomes, assembled from 152,913 contigs. The total number of bases in the genome is 1.04Gb.

Photo credit: Gretta Irwin, Iowa Turkey Federation