Chicken genome: Current status and future opportunities

Genome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1692-1698

  Burt, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

CHICKEN; DOMESTICATION; EGG PRODUCTION; FOWL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; KARYOTYPE; LIVESTOCK; MEAT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENOME; GENOMICS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; MYA;

EID: 28844443822     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.4141805     Document Type: Review

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