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Evolutionary relationships of Red Jungle Fowl and chicken breeds [PDF]
Published results were reassessed and original data are provided regarding the origin and relatedness of four postulated chicken breed lineages, egg-type, game, meat-type and Bantam, to each other and to the basic ancestral species of jungle fowls ...
Michael N Romanov +19 more
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: Adiponectin is an important adipocytokine and plays the roles in multiple metabolic processes via binding its receptors - AdipoR1 and AdipoR2, which has also been found to participate in the regulation of the reproductive system of animals, in ...
Jing Li +9 more
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Intelligent transportation system (ITS) has become a crucial section of transportation and traffic management systems in the past decades. As a result, transportation agencies keep improving the quality of transportation infrastructure management ...
Sylvester Inkoom +2 more
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A mutation in PHKG1 causes high drip loss and low meat quality in Chinese Ningdu yellow chickens
: With increasing societal development and the concurrent improvement in people's quality of life, meat consumption has gradually changed from a focus on “quantity” to “quality”.
Xinwei Xiong +10 more
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Members of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) family play key roles in the regulation of inflammation, immune responses and tissue homeostasis. Here we describe the identification of the chicken homologue of mammalian B cell activating factor of the TNF ...
Kothlow, Sonja +6 more
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: Columbian coloration patterns in plumage are widespread phenomena in several standard breeds of poultry, such as the Columbian Plymouth Rock chicken. H line chicken plumage is generally a pure white except in the hackle, wing, and tail plumage, which ...
Ruiting Li +15 more
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Modulation of Functional Activities of Chicken Heterophils by Recombinant Chicken IFN-γ [PDF]
The objective of the present studies was to examine the in vitro effects of recombinant chicken interferon-γ (rChIFN-γ) on shape change, phagocytosis, and the oxidative/nonoxidative killing activities of day-old chicken heterophils.
Weining, K. C. +8 more
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Regional differences in recombination hotspots between two chicken populations [PDF]
Background Although several genetic linkage maps of the chicken genome have been published, the resolution of these maps is limited and does not allow the precise identification of recombination hotspots. The availability of more than 3.2 million SNPs in
Veenendaal, A. +10 more
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Bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP4) has been reported to regulate adipose development, but its role in preadipocyte proliferation has not been explored in vitro.
Hongyan Chen +7 more
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Transcriptome analysis of the testes of male chickens with high and low sperm motility
: The reproductive performance of chicken breeders has significant economic importance in the poultry industry, and sperm motility is an indicator of reproductive performance. This study performed RNA-seq of the testes of Gushi chicken roosters with high
Zhenwei Du +10 more
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