China has gained breakthrough progress on chicken genome

--Established the first genome frame map of agricultural animal in the world, which will result in far reaching effects on poultry breeding and disease control.
Three academic papers on polymorphism on genome of original chicken and domesticated chicken from Beijing Genome Institute, Chinese Academy of Science have been published on the world famous magazine “Nature” on December 9, 2004, which is another breakthrough result of Chinese scientists under the frame of international cooperation since participating “the Project of Human Genome”.
According to Mr. Liu Bin from the institute, they compared genome frame maps of three varieties of chicken including layer, broiler and silky fowl with that of red original chicken and found more than 280 variation locus, supplying great quantity of material for biological research on chicken and new basis on research for evolution of animal genome through establishing chicken genome frame map and comparison of genome of vertebrate and that of human.
The result has established the world first genome frame map of agricultural animal and will push forward greatly the basic research with poultry as model, etc.
Source: www.cav.net.cn