ARC Centre for Kangaroo Genome

在这项由澳大利亚牵头的袋鼠基因组计划中，我们将在分子水平上绘制和表征袋鼠基因组。有袋类动物的基因组具有独特的价值，因为它们提供的比较揭示了新的人类基因、调控序列和有袋类动物特有的基因。这些将提供对医学、工业、农业和保护有用的新产品和信息。我们将构建完整的基因组遗传和物理图谱，将整个基因组作为大片段克隆到BAC载体中，构建一条重叠最少的“黄金路径”。我们将构建Tammar组织表达基因的文库，并将其排列用于分析基因表达。

In this Australian-led Kangaroo Genome Project, we will map and characterize the tammar wallaby genome at the molecular level. Marsupial genomes are uniquely valuable because they provide comparisons that reveal new human genes, regulatory sequences and marsupial-specific genes. These will deliver new products and information useful for medicine, industry, agriculture and conservation. We will construct integrated genetic and physical maps of the genome, clone the whole genome as large inserts in BAC vectors, and build a "golden path" with minimal overlap. We will construct libraries of expressed genes from tammar tissues and array them for use in analysing gene expression.