CM Ronning performed informatic analysis and validation, drafted text sections, and edited and organized the manuscript for submission.
JB participated in the design of the study, collecting surgical specimens, RNA isolation, amplification and labeling, analysis of microarray results, ISH and PCR validation, drafting the manuscript.
SS carried out all FT-related experiments, manual data validation, drafting of the manuscript and contributed substantially to the design of the data analysis tools.
The resultant pre-validation draft AGQ contains 68 items.
Another genomic resource, radiation hybrid (RH) maps, played a pivotal role in the process of mapping animal genomes and validation of draft assemblies of the genome sequence, especially in mammals [ 8– 11].
SFT and AB contributed to data preparation for model development and validation and drafted the manuscript.
EAA constructed libraries, performed validation and drafted the manuscript.
MJS conducted the addresses validation and drafted the manuscript.
FY performed the experimental validation and drafted the manuscript.
YHH and XHH performed the bioinformatics analysis, qRT-PCR validation and drafted the manuscript.
NFL participated in design, data analysis, assembly validation, and drafting the manuscript.
