Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances
ISSN: Online 1993-601XISSN: Print 1680-5593
Abstract
The chicken (Gallus gallus) 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.
How to cite this article:
Dongying Yang, Chen Gao, Lianqin Zhu, Ligang Tang, Juan Liu and Haisheng Nie. Transcriptomics Research in Chicken.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/javaa.2012.2945.2947
URL: https://www.makhillpublications.co/view-article/1680-5593/javaa.2012.2945.2947