Sus scrofa (pig) is of major interest in agriculture, mainly for the production of pork. Besides its relevance in agriculture, it is considered to be an important model organism for health research due to its similarity to humans. Like humans, they are omnivores and hence have a similar digestive physiology. Furthermore parallels to the human species exist in renal function, vascular structure, and respiratory rates.
The size of its haploid genome is estimated to be 2,800 Mb. It is organized in 18 autosomes and two sex chromosomes (X and Y). In agReg-SNPdb, we store 20,267 genes and 58,145,647 SNPs.
