Scientists in China has just inaugurated the Chicken Genome Research Project, after the inauguration of rice genome project and domestic swine genome research project.

This is another milestone research project in agricultural genome research. According to the introduction by the “863 Plan” biological engineering technology Subject Experts, although the avian genome represented by chicken is relatively small, yet the research on chicken genome has enormous economic potential. If the avian magnetic field identification capacity has always a mystery in the science sector, birds can identify direction in daytime and at night. It is of important significance to solve the mystery of “blind fly” of birds for scientific research. At present, the proportion of output value of poultry industry accounts for about 30% of the total output value of animal products. In order to prevent the transfer of malignant infectious diseases from large livestock to poultry, we can use chicken as a laboratory animal and screen out effective new drugs through disease models. However, we should first mater the gene atlas. It is reported that China has not been lagged behind with the developed countries in chicken genome research, the Chinese scientists is planning to put forward an international collaboration project, and is prepared to unite other countries to jointly complete this genome research.