Ovine Consortium

Ovine Consortium

In the sheep industry, the most important animals are the "sires to breed sires" — the animals that produce the males that are used across the industry. By genotyping thousands of sires, researchers can evaluate a vast number of variants for economically important traits. To develop an ovine BeadChip, Illumina worked with the International Sheep Genomics Consortium (ISGC), comprising leading researchers from AgResearch, Baylor University, UCSC, and Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). To develop the low density Ovine array, Illumina worked with AgResearch in New Zealand.