And now they're fast becoming human pandas.
Previous analyses using the P-clouds method have estimated genomic repetitive content in repeat-poor bird genomes at around 40% (Warren et al. 2010), in more repeat-rich genomes of the Anolis lizard at 73.7% (Warren et al. 2010), and in the human and panda genomes at about 70% (Li et al. 2010).
Open image in new window Figure 2 Human and giant panda demographic history inferred by PSMC (See details in Li and Durbin (2011) and Zhao et al. (2013)).
But while studying human impacts on panda populations in China during the 1990s, ecologist Jack Liu of Michigan State University in East Lansing made a disquieting discovery.
Open image in new window Figure 1 Human and giant panda demographic history inferred by ∂a∂i (See details in Gutenkunst et al. (2009) and Zhao et al. (2013)).
Besides two-population models, ∂a∂i also works well in constructing three-population models as shown in human and giant panda (Gutenkunst et al., 2009; Zhao et al., 2013).
As a result, multiple sets of orthologous loci from the giant panda, human, cat, dog, cow, pig, and mouse used the time constraint of 94 100 MYA for the DOA, DQA, DRA, DOB, DRB, and DQB gene clusters (Figure 5).
The HS3, HS1.2, and HS4 set was detected with certainty in mouse, rat, dog, rabbit, panda, human, chimpanzee, and orangutan.
http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/felCat4/multiz6way/ contains multiple alignments of five mammalian genomes (dog, panda, human, mouse, and opossum) aligned to the cat genome.
Over the past few years BGI has sequenced the genomes of many important species from rice to the giant panda, human disease samples, some rare diseases [ 10], and the first Asian genome [ 18].
