Artifacts of the 1.9x Feline Genome Assembly Derived from the Feline-Specific Satellite Sequence

Two percentage of the cat genome is a repetitive, feline-specific satellite sequence (FA-SAT) of 483 bp and 65% guanine-cytosine content. Previous chromosomal localization of the satellite has demonstrated the satellite’s presence on several discrete regions of the telomeres of chromosomes, predominately on the D, E, and F chromosome groups. The recent assembly of the 1.9× whole-genome shotgun (WGS) sequence of cat illustrates the challenge of...