No matter what side of the road they're on, chickens are an
extremely important model for many fields of biology, including
Nobel Prize winning advances in immunology, virology, and development.
Thus it's only fitting that the chicken is the first bird to
have its genome sequenced. Nature is proud to present
here an extensive resource for the chicken genome, including
the physical map, sequence, analysis, and description of genome
variation in wild versus domesticated breeds. The research papers
are available free, as with all our primary genome content.
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