Marek's disease (MD) is a lymphoproliferative disease of chickens that, in the absence of
control measures, is capable of causing devastating losses in commercial poultry flocks. MD …

Methods for mapping QTL are actively used in the chicken to identify chromosomal regions
contributing to variation in traits related to growth, disease resistance, egg production …

Research over the last few years has demonstrated the increasing role of microRNAs
(miRNAs) as major regulators of gene expression in diverse cellular processes and …

Marek's disease virus (MDV) is a highly contagious oncogenic alphaherpesvirus that causes
disease that is both a cancer model and a continuing threat to the world's poultry industry …

Simple Summary The losses caused by the outbreak of diseases are disastrous for the
animal farming industries. There is an urgent need for an efficient, economical, and …

Background Copy number variation (CNV) is a major source of genome polymorphism that
directly contributes to phenotypic variation such as resistance to infectious diseases. Lines 6 …

The chicken has led the way among agricultural animal species in infectious disease control
and, in particular, selection for genetic resistance. The generation of the chicken genome …

We performed a quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis to map QTLs controlling shank length,
body weight, and carcass weight in a resource family of 245 F2 birds developed from a cross …

Marek's disease (MD) represents a significant global economic and animal welfare issue.
Marek's disease virus (MDV) is a highly contagious oncogenic and highly immune …

It is more than a century since Marek's disease (MD) was first reported in chickens and since
then there have been concerted efforts to better understand this disease, its causative agent …