The cover. Cover subject refers to the 3rd International Conference on Canine and Feline Genomics held in August 2006 at Davis, California. Cover collage depicts Border Collies below the Golden Gate bridge (photo from M. L. Chang and S. Hamilton), Cinnamon, the Abyssinian cat who was volunteered to produce the full feline genome sequence (photo from K. Narfstrom). Scottish wildcat pair (the parent species from whence domestic cats derive [photo from E. Macdonald]), Havanese puppies at dinner (photo from J. Little, A. Starr, K. Murphy), multicolor tiling FISH of dog chromosome 1 with 13 BACs spaced at 10Mb intervals, selected from the canine genome assembly (photo from M. Breen and S. Duke). Background is a canine genomic BAC microarray showing a wide range of chromosome copy number deviations present in a tumor (image by R. Thomas and M. Breen).
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