The cultivars Forrest and 'Williams 82' provide a large set of useful genomic tools for soybean genomics [ 6, 12, 13].
The past decade has witnessed rapid advances in genomic tools for delineating 3D genome architecture.
Historically, the development of genomic tools for the sheep genome has lagged behind those of other major livestock species such as the cattle and chicken.
However, developing integrated genomic tools for complex allotetraploid genomes, like that of cotton, is highly experimental.
Such maps have been widely used to effectively integrate genomic tools for high-resolution genome mapping, marker-assisted breeding, positional cloning of genes, and quantitative trait locus (QTL) detection [ 10, 11].
These new SSR markers provide useful genetic and genomic tools for molecular analysis of peanut genome, and facilitate the construction of higher density genetic linkage maps.
Finally, the recent development of genomic tools for ants [ 47] and whole-genome sequences for other Hymenoptera [ 39] suggest that similar resources may be on the horizon for other ant species.
Nevertheless, the new SSR markers and the consensus map developed in the present study provide useful genetic and genomic tools for molecular analysis of the BPH genome and will facilitate the construction of a higher density second-generation linkage map.
It will therefore facilitate extrapolation of data from cattle genomics and at some point aid in the development of additional genomic tools for buffalo.
Genomic tools for designing, and assessing the impact of, genetic modifications are well developed.
Additionally, the genetic and genomic tools for selective and enhanced solvent production, which are currently under intense development, are discussed.
