Bos taurus (cattle, cow) is the domesticated form of the Eurasian aurochs and is considered one of the most important animals in agriculture. It is used for meat, milk, and leather production and there exists a variety of different breeds.
The bovine genome is organized in 29 autosomes and two sex chromosomes (X and Y), of which only the X chromosome has been assembled in the ARS-UCD1.2 assembly due to its origin from females.
It is estimated to have a size of 3,000 Mb. In agReg-SNPdb, we store 21,656 genes and 88,109,946 SNPs.
