Background Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is caused by prenatal alcohol exposure
(PAE), the intake of ethanol (C2H5OH) during pregnancy. Features of FASD cover a range …

Background Many researches about in ovo feeding (IOF) of vitamin C (VC) are gradually
carried out to explore physiological development in chicken, but little studies focus on VC …

Some studies have shown that the excessive metabolic heat production is the primary cause
for dead chicken embryos during late embryonic development. Increasing heat shock …

The Green-legged Partridgelike fowl is a native, dual-purpose Polish chicken. The White
Leghorn has been intensively selected for several decades to mainly improve reproductive …

The genome-wide DNA methylation assay was used to analyze the difference in methylation
between the breeding and conservation populations of Shaoxing ducks. The methylation …

The slow skeletal muscle troponin I (TNNI1) gene has been found to be specifically
expressed in slow muscle fibres and plays an important role in muscle development. The …

Heroin and methylamphetamine (METH) are two addictive drugs that cause serious
problems for society. Dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4), a key receptor in the dopaminergic …

We aimed to estimate transgenerational epigenetic variance for body weight using
genealogical and phenotypic information in meat quails. Animals were individually weighted …

When an RNA does not code for a protein it will be nominated a non-coding RNA
nevertheless this does not reflect that such RNA doesn't possess info or a certain role …

Increased availability and improved sequence annotation of the chicken (Gallus gallus f.
domestica) genome have sparked interest in the bird as a model system to investigate …