Attention Breeders: Ultrasound PKD clinics for disease severity coming soon!

The Feline Genome Project is an effort to develop feline specific genetic tools and resources to improve feline and human health. The effort promotes the interaction of feline researchers, from various disciplines, to advance the genetics of the domestic cat. Many diseases and phenotypic traits of the cat represent interesting biological processes that are important to human health and other animals. Using the cat as an animal model, the Feline Genome Project hopes to elucidate the genes controlling simple and complex traits and diseases that are found in the cat and other species. General population dynamics of breed and domestic cat evolution are also a focus of the project.

This site will present the work performed in the laboratory of Dr. Leslie A. Lyons and will summarize other advances in feline genetics.

Other useful links:

Veterinary Genetics Laboatory (VGL)

Center for Companion Animal Health (CCAH)

California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC)

Center for Equine Health (CEH)

Department of Population Health & Reproduction (VM:PHR)

Last update: November 30, 2004 This site is under continual development. Please visit again soon! Many of the current pages are the place holders for future information. Please provide suggestions to the webmaster: felinegenome@ucdavis.edu