The Japanese quail has several advantages as a laboratory animal for biological and
biomedical investigations. In this study, the draft genome of the Japanese quail was …

Abstract Background Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica), a recently domesticated poultry
species, is important not only as an agricultural product, but also as a model bird species for …

Gamecock chickens are one of the earliest recorded birds in China, and have accumulated
some unique morphological and behavioral signatures such as large body size, muscularity …

Background: Since the domestication of the red jungle fowls (Gallus gallus; dating back to∼
10 000 BP) in Asia, domestic chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) have been subjected to …

Abstract Background Because the Japanese native cattle Kuchinoshima-Ushi have been
isolated in a small island and their lineage has been intensely protected, it has been …

Simple Summary Artificial selection has been applied to domesticated birds for many
decades. More recently, this selection has made use of so-called single-nucleotide …

The chicken model organism has advanced the areas of developmental biology, virology,
immunology, oncology, epigenetic regulation of gene expression, conservation biology, and …

Background Comparative genomics is a powerful means of establishing inter-specific
relationships between gene function/location and allows insight into genomic …

The gene numbers and evolutionary rates of birds were assumed to be much lower than
those of mammals, which is in sharp contrast to the huge species number and …

Background The different regions of a genome do not evolve at the same rate. For example,
comparative genomic studies have suggested that the sex chromosomes and the regions …