Wesley C. Warren, LaDeana W. Hillier, Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, Ewan Birney, Chris P. Ponting, Frank Grützner, Katherine Belov, Webb Miller, Laura Clarke, Asif T. Chinwalla, Shiaw-Pyng Yang, Andreas Heger, Devin P. Locke, Pat Miethke, Paul D. Waters, Frédéric Veyrunes, Lucinda Fulton, Bob Fulton, Tina Graves, John Wallis, Xose S. Puente, Carlos López-Otín, Gonzalo R. Ordóñez, Evan E. Eichler, Lin Chen, Ze Cheng, Janine E. Deakin, Amber Alsop, Katherine Thompson, Patrick Kirby, Anthony T. Papenfuss, Matthew J. Wakefield, Tsviya Olender, Doron Lancet, Gavin A. Huttley, Arian F. A. Smit, Andrew Pask, Peter Temple-Smith, Mark A. Batzer, Jerilyn A. Walker, Miriam K. Konkel, Robert S. Harris, Camilla M. Whittington, Emily S. W. Wong, Neil J. Gemmell, Emmanuel Buschiazzo, Iris M. Vargas Jentzsch, Angelika Merkel, Juergen Schmitz, Anja Zemann, Gennady Churakov, Jan Ole Kriegs, Juergen Brosius, Elizabeth P. Murchison, Ravi Sachidanandam, Carly Smith, Gregory J. Hannon, Enkhjargal Tsend-Ayush, Daniel McMillan, Rosalind Attenborough, Willem Rens, Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, Christophe M. Lefèvre, Julie A. Sharp, Kevin R. Nicholas, David A. Ray, Michael Kube, Richard Reinhardt, Thomas H. Pringle, James Taylor, Russell C. Jones, Brett Nixon, Jean-Louis Dacheux, Hitoshi Niwa, Yoko Sekita, Xiaoqiu Huang, Alexander Stark, Pouya Kheradpour, Manolis Kellis, Paul Flicek, Yuan Chen, Caleb Webber, Ross Hardison, Joanne Nelson, Kym Hallsworth-Pepin, Kim Delehaunty, Chris Markovic, Pat Minx, Yucheng Feng, Colin Kremitzki, Makedonka Mitreva, Jarret Glasscock, Todd Wylie, Patricia Wohldmann, Prathapan Thiru, Michael N. Nhan, Craig S. Pohl, Scott M. Smith, Shunfeng Hou, Marilyn B. Renfree, Elaine R. Mardis, Richard K. Wilson, A list of authors, their affiliations appears at the end of the paper