The following cats have already been sequenced for this project!
99 Lives Cat Genome Sequencing Participants | |||
Investigator | University | No. Cats | Breeds / Species |
Leslie Lyons | Univ. of Missouri – Columbia | 3 | Orientals |
Leslie Lyons | Univ. of Missouri – Columbia | 9 | Bengal – Persian mixes, Oriental |
Leslie Lyons | Univ. of Missouri – Columbia | 1 | MU DSH |
Leslie Lyons | Univ. of Missouri – Columbia | 2 | Burmese |
Leslie Lyons | Univ. of Missouri – Columbia | 2 | Devon Rex |
Leslie Lyons | Univ. of Missouri – Columbia | 1 | LaPerm |
Leslie Lyons | Univ. of Missouri – Columbia | 11 | Worldwide races |
Jackie Pearce | Univ. of Missouri – Columbia | 3 | Felis nigripes |
Niels Pedersen | Univ. of California – Davis | 2 | Birman |
Rory Todhunter | Cornell University | 5 | Various breeds |
Jeff Brockman | Hill’s Pet Food (Pending) | 2 | |
Max Rothschild | Iowa State | 1 | Random bred |
Matthew Ellinwood | Iowa State | 1 | Siamese |
Dorian Garrick | Iowa State | 2 | British Shorthairs |
Tosso Leeb | Univ. of Bern | 1 | DSH |
Hannes Lohi | Univ. of Helsinki | 4 | Ragdoll, Persian, DSH |
William Murphy | Texas A&M | 1 | Gus – DSH |
Private Donor | 1 | Burmese | |
William Swanson | Cincinnati Zoological Park | 1 | Otocolobus manul |
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- Several other investigators are interested in contributing and are raising funds for sequencing.
- Gold high-lighted names represent the sequenced felines of other species beside the Felis catus.


