On the basis of previous reports showing that the karyotype of panda is similar to that of bears12, the bear and the panda are expected to have similar genome sizes. We again determined the panda genome size to be 2.40 Gb. Using this genome size, the assembled contigs and scaffolds ...
Given the evolutionary relationship of the panda with the dog and the bear, we used their genome size information to refine our esti- mate of the panda genome size. For the whole genome, the size ratio of conserved syntenic blocks between the panda and the dog genomes is 0.978. As the ...