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Nature 438, 740 (8 December 2005) | doi:10.1038/438740a; Published online 7 December 2005

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Stephen J. O'Brien1

BOOK REVIEWEDThe Dog and Its Genome

edited by Elaine A. Ostrander, Urs Giger & Kerstin Lindblad-Toh
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press: 2005. 584 pp. $135, £80

Genome technology has found its way into the living room with the completion of the whole-genome sequence of the domestic dog Canis familiaris, from a female boxer called Tasha. Finished just a year after its initiation in 2003, the remarkably complete sequence (representing an estimated 99% of the dog's 2.

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