Wesley C. Warren - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
LaDeana W. Hillier - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Jennifer A. Marshall Graves - Australian Natl Univ, John Curtin Sch Med Res, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Ewan Birney - EBI, EMBL, Cambridge CB10 1SD, England
Chris P. Ponting - Univ Oxford, Dept Human Physiol Anat & Genet, MRC, Funct Genet Unit, Oxford OX1 3QX, England
Frank Grutzner - The University of Adelaide
Katherine Belov - Univ Sydney, Fac Vet Sci, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Webb Miller - Penn State Univ, Ctr Comparat Genom & Bioinformat, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
Laura Clarke - Wellcome Sanger Institute
Asif T. Chinwalla - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Shiaw-Pyng Yang - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Andreas Heger - Univ Oxford, Dept Human Physiol Anat & Genet, MRC, Funct Genet Unit, Oxford OX1 3QX, England
Devin P. Locke - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Pat Miethke - Australian Natl Univ, John Curtin Sch Med Res, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Paul D. Waters - Australian Natl Univ, John Curtin Sch Med Res, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Frederic Veyrunes - Australian Natl Univ, John Curtin Sch Med Res, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Lucinda Fulton - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Bob Fulton - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Tina Graves - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
John Wallis - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Xose S. Puente - Univ Oviedo, Dept Bioquim & Biol Mol, Inst Univ Oncol, E-33006 Oviedo, Spain
Carlos Lopez-Otin - Univ Oviedo, Dept Bioquim & Biol Mol, Inst Univ Oncol, E-33006 Oviedo, Spain
Gonzalo R. Ordonez - Univ Oviedo, Dept Bioquim & Biol Mol, Inst Univ Oncol, E-33006 Oviedo, Spain
Evan E. Eichler - University of Washington
Lin Chen - Univ Washington, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Dept Genome Sci, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
Ze Cheng - Univ Washington, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Dept Genome Sci, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
Janine E. Deakin - Australian Natl Univ, John Curtin Sch Med Res, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Amber Alsop - Australian Natl Univ, John Curtin Sch Med Res, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Katherine Thompson - Australian Natl Univ, John Curtin Sch Med Res, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Patrick Kirby - Australian Natl Univ, John Curtin Sch Med Res, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Anthony T. Papenfuss - Royal Melbourne Hosp, Walter & Eliza Hall Inst Med Res, Parkville, Vic 3050, Australia
Matthew J. Wakefield - Royal Melbourne Hosp, Walter & Eliza Hall Inst Med Res, Parkville, Vic 3050, Australia
Tsviya Olender - Weizmann Inst Sci, Dept Mol Genet, Crown Human Genome Ctr, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel
Doron Lancet - Weizmann Inst Sci, Dept Mol Genet, Crown Human Genome Ctr, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel
Gavin A. Huttley - Australian Natl Univ, John Curtin Sch Med Res, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Arian F. A. Smit - Inst Syst Biol, Seattle, WA 98103 USA
Andrew Pask - Univ Melbourne, Dept Zool, CRC Innovat Dairy Prod, Parkville, Vic 3010, Australia
Peter Temple-Smith - Univ Melbourne, Dept Zool, CRC Innovat Dairy Prod, Parkville, Vic 3010, Australia
Mark A. Batzer - Louisiana State Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Ctr Biomodular Multiscale Syst, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
Jerilyn A. Walker - Louisiana State Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Ctr Biomodular Multiscale Syst, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
Miriam K. Konkel - Louisiana State Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Ctr Biomodular Multiscale Syst, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
Robert S. Harris - Penn State Univ, Ctr Comparat Genom & Bioinformat, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
Camilla M. Whittington - The University of Sydney
Emily S. W. Wong - Univ Sydney, Fac Vet Sci, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Neil J. Gemmell - Univ Canterbury, Sch Biol Sci, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
Emmanuel Buschiazzo - Univ Canterbury, Sch Biol Sci, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
Iris M. Vargas Jentzsch - Univ Canterbury, Sch Biol Sci, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
Angelika Merkel - Univ Canterbury, Sch Biol Sci, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
Juergen Schmitz - Univ Munster, Inst Expt Pathol, D-48149 Munster, Germany
Anja Zemann - Univ Munster, Inst Expt Pathol, D-48149 Munster, Germany
Gennady Churakov - University of Münster
Jan Ole Kriegs - Univ Munster, Inst Expt Pathol, D-48149 Munster, Germany
Juergen Brosius - Univ Munster, Inst Expt Pathol, D-48149 Munster, Germany
Elizabeth P. Murchison - Cold Spring Harbor Lab, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724 USA
Ravi Sachidanandam - MED Institute
Carly Smith - Cold Spring Harbor Lab, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724 USA
Gregory J. Hannon - Cold Spring Harbor Lab, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724 USA
Enkhjargal Tsend-Ayush - Univ Adelaide, Sch Mol & Biomed Sci, Discipline Genet, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
Daniel McMillan
Rosalind Attenborough - Australian Natl Univ, John Curtin Sch Med Res, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Willem Rens - Univ Cambridge, Dept Vet Med, Cambridge CB3 0ES, England
Malcolm Ferguson-Smith - University of Cambridge
Christophe M. Lefevre - Univ Melbourne, Dept Zool, CRC Innovat Dairy Prod, Parkville, Vic 3010, Australia
Julie A. Sharp - Univ Melbourne, Dept Zool, CRC Innovat Dairy Prod, Parkville, Vic 3010, Australia
Kevin R. Nicholas - Univ Melbourne, Dept Zool, CRC Innovat Dairy Prod, Parkville, Vic 3010, Australia
David A. Ray - W Virginia Univ, Dept Biol, Morgantown, WV 26505 USA
Michael Kube - Max Planck Inst Mol Genet, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
Richard Reinhardt - Max Planck Inst Mol Genet, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
Thomas H. Pringle - Sperling Fdn, Eugene, OR 97405 USA
James Taylor - NYU, Courant Inst, New York, NY 10012 USA
Russell C. Jones - Univ Newcastle, Sch Environm & Life Sci, Discipline Biol Sci, Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia
Brett Nixon - Univ Newcastle, Sch Environm & Life Sci, Discipline Biol Sci, Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia
Jean-Louis Dacheux - INRA, CNRS, UMR 6073, F-37380 Nouzilly, France
Hitoshi Niwa - RIKEN, CDB, Lab Pluripotent Cell Studies, Chuo Ku, Kobe, Hyogo 6500047, Japan
Yoko Sekita - RIKEN, CDB, Lab Pluripotent Cell Studies, Chuo Ku, Kobe, Hyogo 6500047, Japan
Xiaoqiu Huang - Iowa State Univ, Dept Comp Sci, Ames, IA 50011 USA
Alexander Stark - MIT, Broad Inst, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Pouya Kheradpour - Broad Institute
Manolis Kellis - Broad Institute
Paul Flicek - EBI, EMBL, Cambridge CB10 1SD, England
Yuan Chen - EBI, EMBL, Cambridge CB10 1SD, England
Caleb Webber - Univ Oxford, Dept Human Physiol Anat & Genet, MRC, Funct Genet Unit, Oxford OX1 3QX, England
Ross Hardison - Penn State Univ, Ctr Comparat Genom & Bioinformat, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
Joanne Nelson - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Kym Hallsworth-Pepin - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Kim Delehaunty - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Chris Markovic - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Pat Minx - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Yucheng Feng - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Colin Kremitzki - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Makedonka Mitreva - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Jarret Glasscock - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Todd Wylie - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Patricia Wohldmann - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Prathapan Thiru - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Michael N. Nhan - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Craig S. Pohl - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Scott M. Smith - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Shunfeng Hou - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Marilyn B. Renfree - The University of Melbourne
Elaine R. Mardis - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Richard K. Wilson - Washington Univ, Sch Med, Genome Sequencing Ctr, St Louis, MO 63108 USA
A list of authors and their affiliations appears at the end of the paper