Adventures in the Enormous: A 1.8 Million Clone BAC Library for the 21.7 Gb Genome of Loblolly Pine

• Zenaida V. Magbanua ,

  * E-mail: zvm2@ msstate.edu

  Affiliations Mississippi Genome Exploration Laboratory and Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America, Life Sciences and Biotechnology Institute and Institute for Digital Biology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Seval Ozkan,

  Affiliation Mississippi Genome Exploration Laboratory and Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Benjamin D. Bartlett,

  Affiliation Mississippi Genome Exploration Laboratory and Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Philippe Chouvarine,

  Affiliations Mississippi Genome Exploration Laboratory and Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America, Life Sciences and Biotechnology Institute and Institute for Digital Biology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Christopher A. Saski,

  Affiliation Clemson University Genomics Institute, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Aaron Liston,

  Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

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• Richard C. Cronn,

  Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Pacific Northwest Research Station, United States Forest Service, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

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• C. Dana Nelson,

  Affiliation Southern Institute of Forest Genetics, United States Forest Service, Saucier, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Daniel G. Peterson

  Affiliations Mississippi Genome Exploration Laboratory and Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America, Life Sciences and Biotechnology Institute and Institute for Digital Biology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

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