From the Lab: Mapping the elephant’s genes

By Raman Sukumar & group (IISc), Sanjeev Galande & group (IISER)
For several years, there has been a global effort to sequence the genomes of numerous plants and animals. A few years ago, the genome of the African elephant was sequenced. Two years ago, we at the IISc and IISER began work on genome sequencing of the Asian elephant, the species that is found in India, as well as in many countries in south and south-east Asia.
The elephant is the largest living land mammal in the world, and