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Chicken Genome

Recent Publications on chicken genome :

Selection for the compactness of highly expressed genes in Gallus gallus.
BACKGROUND: Coding sequence (CDS) length, gene size, and intron length...
Department of Biological Technology, Jiangxi Educational Institute, Biol Direct. 2010 May 14;5:35.
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The red jungle fowl leukocyte receptor complex contains a large, highly diverse number of chicken immunoglobulin-like receptor (CHIR) genes.
The chicken Ig-like receptor (CHIR) gene family is located on...
Institute for Animal Physiology, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Mol Immunol. 2010 Jul;47(11-12):1956-62. Epub 2010 May 26.
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Marek's disease virus-induced immunosuppression: array analysis of chicken immune response gene expression profiling.
Marek's disease (MD) is a lymphoproliferative disease of chickens induced...
United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, Viral Immunol. 2010 Jun;23(3):309-19.
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Gallin; an antimicrobial peptide member of a new avian defensin family, the ovodefensins, has been subject to recent gene duplication.
BACKGROUND: Egg white must provide nutrients and protection to the...
Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University BMC Immunol. 2010 Mar 12;11:12.
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Indel segregating within introns in the chicken genome are positively correlated with the recombination rates.
Insertions and deletions (Indel) are important sources of genetic...
Department of Biological Technology, Jiangxi Educational Institute, Hereditas. 2010 Apr;147(2):53-7.
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Patents:

US Patent No.Title
6440666 Selection for dwarfism in poultry
6875588 Ovomucoid promoter and methods of use
6884775 Methods and compositions for regulating skeletogenic formation
6916649 UDP-galactose: .beta.-N-acetyl-glucosamine .beta.-1,4-galactosyltransferase, .beta.4Gal-T2
6919429 Prostate associated Ets protein