Shin Okamoto

TL;DR: Investigation of whether various kinds of chicken breeds and jungle fowls carry the resistant or sensitive Mx allelic gene by using the mismatched PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) technique confirmed the results by the determination of amino acid sequences in the GTPase effector domain of junglefowls.

TL;DR: The results suggest that multiple maternal lineages were involved in the origin of domestic chicken in Laos, and there appear to be at least two maternal linesages, one from China and the other from the southeast Asian continent.

TL;DR: It is inferred that fowl sperm undergo a gradual process of maturational changes in motility, APA, and penetrability as a means of acquiring potential fertility during their passage throughout the male genital tract.

TL;DR: DFP analysis with mixed DNA could be effectively used to assess the genetic relationship among the stocks of fowls and indicated that Red Jungle Fowl was relatively close to the domestic fowlS.

TL;DR: A significant correlation between promoter indel polymorphisms and PRNP-mRNA expression is found and it is hypothesized that differences in polymorphisms could be one of the causes of differences in PRNP expression levels.