Huaijun Zhou

TL;DR: This map is based on a comparison of the sequences of three domestic chicken breeds with that of their wild ancestor, red jungle fowl, and indicates that at least 90% of the variant sites are true SNPs, and at least 70% are common SNPs that segregate in many domestic breeds.

TL;DR: Test the hypothesis that weaning or glutamine may modulate expression of genes that are crucial for intestinal metabolism and function and reveal coordinate alterations of gene expression in response to weaning, providing molecular mechanisms for the beneficial effect of dietary glutamine supplementation to improve nutrition status in young mammals.

TL;DR: The organization of a nascent international effort, the Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes (FAANG) project, whose aim is to produce comprehensive maps of functional elements in the genomes of domesticated animal species is described.

TL;DR: Results are suggestive of the induction of natural antibodies in probiotic-treated, unimmunized chickens, and the role of these antibodies in maintenance of the chicken immune system homeostasis and immune response to pathogens requires further investigation.

TL;DR: The phylogenetic consensus tree that was constructed grouped these 23 inbred chicken lines into four different clusters in accordance with the origin and breeding history of these inbred lines, which indicates that the use of microsatellites for the study of genetic biodiversity is accurate and reliable.