TY  - JOUR
T1  - Transcriptomics Research in Chicken
AU - Zhu, Lianqin AU - Yang, Dongying AU - Gao, Chen AU - Tang, Ligang AU - Liu, Juan AU - Nie, Haisheng 
JO  - Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances
VL  - 11
IS  - 16
SP  - 2945
EP  - 2947
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1680-5593
DO  - javaa.2012.2945.2947
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=javaa.2012.2945.2947
KW  - Chicken
KW  -transcriptomics
KW  -genome
KW  -mammals
KW  -feed
KW  -genetics
AB  - The chicken (<I>Gallus gallus</I>) is an important model organism in genetics, developmental biology, immunology and evolutionary research. Moreover, besides being an important model organism the chicken is also a very important agricultural species and an important source of food (eggs and meat). The availability of the draft chicken genome sequence provided many possibilities to in detail study a variety of genomic changes during evolution using a comparison between chicken and mammals. For example, compared to mammals, the use of a Z/W sex determination system is a special aspect of the avian genome where the female is the heterogametic sex (ZW) and the male is the homogametic (ZZ) sex. A comparison of the genomic sequences of platypus, chicken and human showed that sex chromosomes evolved separately in birds and mammals.
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