Marcia M. Miller

TL;DR: A draft genome sequence of the red jungle fowl, Gallus gallus, provides a new perspective on vertebrate genome evolution, while also improving the annotation of mammalian genomes.

TL;DR: A new version of the chicken genome assembly is presented, built from combined long single molecule sequencing technology, finished BACs, and improved physical maps, and revisited the question of what genes are missing in the avian lineage, and found that a large fraction of the original set of missing genes are still absent in sequenced bird species.

TL;DR: The chicken MHC-B region is highly polymorphic across the surveyed 209-kb region that contains 45 genes, which indicates that crossing-over events at multiple locations within the region lead to the production of new M HC-B haplotypes.

TL;DR: It is proposed that B7 and MHC genes are derived from a common ancestor, with several members of this large gene family possibly having pivotal influences on T-cell activation.

TL;DR: The heterogeneity observed in restriction fragment patterns was found to be the result of the presence of a second, independently segregating polymorphic Mhc-like locus, designated Rfp-Y, and three alleles (haplotypes) are identified in this new system.