Poultry Breeding and Genetics
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2024) | Viewed by 5425
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As a major source of protein in our daily diet, chicken meat and eggs are widely consumed due to their high quality and low cost. Poultry breeding and genetics have experienced rapid advancement since the completion of the chicken genome sequence in 2004, and they have been extensively used to understand the genetic determinants of complex traits. With the development of high-throughput sequencing technology, molecular biology, bioinformatics and genetics, the genetic basis and regulation mechanism of important economic traits in poultry including reproductive traits, meat quality, growth traits, disease resistance, and other important traits have attracted attention and witnessed remarkable progress through the use of multi-omics (genome, epigenome, transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome), 3D genomics, Hi-C and so on. However, much of their detailed regulatory mechanism is unknown. Genes is now inviting submissions for a Special Issue on the topic of “Poultry Breeding and Genetics”. The contents cover genetic variation detection, selection methods for breeding, transgenesis and genome editing, the genetic basis of disease resistance, control of gene expression and regulation, reproduction and meat quality, etc. Research articles, reviews, short communications, brief reports, and other forms of original articles on this topic are all welcome. The hope is that this Special Issue will open new avenues to discover the theoretical and practical aspects of poultry phenotype traits and provide valuable information for poultry breeding projects.
Dr. Hong Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- poultry
- gene expression regulation
- RNA-seq
- genomics
- growth traits
- reproductive traits
- meat quality traits
- cell biology
- molecular biology
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