Acknowledgements and Support For The ISGC Reference Genome Project

The International Sheep Genomics Sequencing Consortium is grateful to the following for funding support for the sheep genome sequencing project.

• The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, U.K.
  
  
• The Scottish Government, U.K.
  
  
• Defra/HEFC/SHEFC Veterinary Training and Research Initiative, U.K.
  
  
• USDA-ARS, USA, USDA-NRICGP, USA (grant numbers 2008-03923 and 2009-03305).
  
  
• USDA-NRSP-8, USA.
  
  
• Meat and Livestock Australia and Australian Wool Innovation Limited through sheepGENOMICS.
  
  
• Australian Government International Science Linkages Grant (CG090143).
  
  
• University of Sydney, Australia.
  
  
• CSIRO, Australia.
  
  
• AgResearch, New Zealand.
  
  
• Beef and Lamb New Zealand though Ovita, New Zealand.
  
  
• INRA and ANR project SheepSNPQTL, France.
  
  
• European Union through FP7 Quantomics and 3-SR projects.
  
  
• A 973 Program (No. 2007CB815700), 100 Talents Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences and a CAS-Max Planck Society Fellowship to Kunming Institute of Zoology, China.
  
  
• The National Natural Science Foundation of China (30725008, 30960246), Shenzhen (ZYC200903240077A , ZYC200903240078A), the Ole Rømer grant from Danish Natural Science Research Council, and the Solexa project (272-07-0196) to BGI Shenzhen, China.