The chicken (
Gallus gallus) is an important model organism for biomedical research, development, and aging, in addition to being important agriculturally. The chicken has served as a model organism in many areas of biomedical research; it is one of the primary models for embryology and development, the study of viruses, and cancer.The chicken
More...genome is less than half the size of that of mouse or human, and consists of 38 autosomes and two sex chromosomes, referred to as Z and W. Unlike mammals, male birds are homozygous (ZZ) while females are heterozygous (ZW). Chicken chromosomes, like other avian species, exhibit a much greater variation in size ranging from 200 Mb to 5 Mb; the smaller chromosomes are termed "microchromosomes". Less... 
Gallus gallus Gallus_gallus-4.0A team at the Genome Sequencing Center at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis led by Richard Wilson, Ph.D., assembled the genome of the Red Jungle Fowl, the ancestor of domestic chickens. This is the first avian genome to be sequenced.
A de novo assembly was submitted by the International Chicken Genome Sequencing Consortium to correct gaps and duplications in build 2.1. Sequencing of the same individual used in the previous assemblies was to 12-fold coverage with the 454 platform and assembly produced by combining new reads with all previous Sanger reads. |
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| master WGS | - | AADN00000000.3 | 942.31 | 41.9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | | | Chr | 1 | NC_006088.3 | CM000093.3 | 195.28 | 40.2 | 2,245 | - | 40 | 119 | 2,245 | 22 | | | Chr | 2 | NC_006089.3 | CM000094.3 | 148.81 | 39.9 | 1,479 | - | 43 | 86 | 1,503 | 12 | | | Chr | 3 | NC_006090.3 | CM000095.3 | 110.45 | 40.1 | 1,307 | - | 19 | 61 | 1,314 | 7 | | | Chr | 4 | NC_006091.3 | CM000096.3 | 90.22 | 40.1 | 1,218 | - | 4 | 76 | 1,234 | 12 | | | Chr | 5 | NC_006092.3 | CM000097.3 | 59.58 | 41.1 | 1,055 | - | 10 | 55 | 1,050 | 5 | | | Chr | 6 | NC_006093.3 | CM000098.3 | 34.95 | 41.9 | 576 | - | 3 | 25 | 583 | 6 | | | Chr | 7 | NC_006094.3 | CM000099.3 | 36.24 | 41.5 | 574 | - | 21 | 34 | 556 | 3 | | | Chr | 8 | NC_006095.3 | CM000100.3 | 28.77 | 42.0 | 560 | - | 2 | 31 | 563 | 4 | | | Chr | 9 | NC_006096.3 | CM000101.3 | 23.44 | 43.0 | 472 | - | 2 | 34 | 476 | 1 | | | Chr | 10 | NC_006097.3 | CM000102.3 | 19.91 | 43.4 | 445 | - | 8 | 41 | 467 | 5 | | | Chr | 11 | NC_006098.3 | CM000103.3 | 19.4 | 42.4 | 405 | - | 9 | 23 | 411 | 4 | | | Chr | 12 | NC_006099.3 | CM000104.3 | 19.9 | 43.5 | 376 | - | 1 | 20 | 373 | 3 | | | Chr | 13 | NC_006100.3 | CM000105.3 | 17.76 | 44.7 | 387 | - | 1 | 24 | 392 | 5 | | | Chr | 14 | NC_006101.3 | CM000106.3 | 15.16 | 45.5 | 445 | - | 4 | 26 | 450 | 1 | | | Chr | 15 | NC_006102.3 | CM000107.3 | 12.66 | 45.5 | 375 | - | 6 | 23 | 388 | 5 | | | Chr | 16 | NC_006103.3 | CM000108.3 | 0.53527 | 52.6 | 49 | - | 22 | 1 | 52 | 4 | | | Chr | 17 | NC_006104.3 | CM000109.3 | 10.45 | 48.0 | 328 | - | 2 | 18 | 324 | 1 | | | Chr | 18 | NC_006105.3 | CM000110.3 | 11.22 | 46.8 | 345 | - | 13 | 13 | 338 | 3 | | | Chr | 19 | NC_006106.3 | CM000111.3 | 9.98 | 47.1 | 344 | - | 2 | 24 | 354 | 1 | | | Chr | 20 | NC_006107.3 | CM000112.3 | 14.3 | 46.1 | 379 | - | 4 | 23 | 389 | 3 | | | Chr | 21 | NC_006108.3 | CM000113.3 | 6.8 | 47.7 | 264 | - | - | 13 | 268 | 3 | | | Chr | 22 | NC_006109.3 | CM000114.3 | 4.08 | 46.6 | 123 | - | - | 4 | 122 | 3 | | | Chr | 23 | NC_006110.3 | CM000115.3 | 5.72 | 50.7 | 239 | - | - | 15 | 244 | 4 | | | Chr | 24 | NC_006111.3 | CM000116.3 | 6.32 | 49.4 | 182 | - | - | 14 | 191 | - | | | Chr | 25 | NC_006112.2 | CM000124.3 | 2.19 | 54.6 | 222 | - | 1 | 6 | 218 | 4 | | | Chr | 26 | NC_006113.3 | CM000117.3 | 5.33 | 51.8 | 271 | - | 3 | 12 | 264 | 2 | | | Chr | 27 | NC_006114.3 | CM000118.3 | 5.21 | 51.1 | 299 | - | 13 | 8 | 306 | 5 | | | Chr | 28 | NC_006115.3 | CM000119.3 | 4.74 | 51.5 | 260 | - | 4 | 18 | 268 | 1 | | | Chr | 32 | NC_006119.2 | CM000120.2 | 0.001028 | 56.3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | | | Chr | W | NC_006126.3 | CM000121.3 | 1.25 | 45.6 | 8 | - | - | - | 7 | - | | | Chr | Z | NC_006127.3 | CM000122.3 | 82.36 | 41.0 | 824 | - | 2 | 41 | 823 | 13 | | | LinkageGroup | LGE22C19W28_E50C23 | NC_008465.2 | CM000123.3 | 0.965146 | 51.6 | 62 | - | - | 2 | 59 | 1 | | | LinkageGroup | LGE64 | NC_008466.2 | CM000367.2 | 0.799899 | 46.8 | 25 | - | - | - | 25 | - | | | Chr | MT | NC_001323.1 | X52392.1 | 0.016775 | 46.0 | 13 | 2 | 22 | - | 13 | - | | | Un | - | . | - | 42.11 | 49.5 | 1,515 | - | - | 54 | 1,723 | 169 | |
Click on chromosome name to open MapViewer  Chromosomes [1]  Scaffolds or contigs [0]  SRA or Traces [0]  No data [1] |
| Epigenomics | 5 | | Map | 2 | | Transcriptome or Gene expression | 200 | | Variation | 4 |
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- Convergent evolution of chicken Z and human X chromosomes by expansion and gene acquisition. Bellott DW, et al. Nature 2010 Jul 29
- Molecular evidence for hybridization of species in the genus Gallus except for Gallus varius. Nishibori M, et al. Anim Genet 2005 Oct
- Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution. International Chicken Genome Sequencing Consortium Nature 2004 Dec 9
- Cloning and characterization of Wnt-4 and Wnt-11 cDNAs from chick embryo. Tanda N, et al. DNA Seq 1995
- Identification and analysis of the expression of CD8 alpha beta and CD8 alpha alpha isoforms in chickens reveals a major TCR-gamma delta CD8 alpha beta subset of intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes. Tregaskes CA, et al. J Immunol 1995 May 1
- A chicken Wnt gene, Wnt-11, is involved in dermal development. Tanda N, et al. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1995 Jun 6
- A conserved heptamer motif for ribosomal RNA transcription termination in animal mitochondria. Valverde JR, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994 Jun 7
- Identification of chicken liver glucose transporter. Wang MY, et al. Arch Biochem Biophys 1994 Apr
- Collapsin: a protein in brain that induces the collapse and paralysis of neuronal growth cones. Luo Y, et al. Cell 1993 Oct 22
- Molecular cloning of human XPAC gene homologs from chicken, Xenopus laevis and Drosophila melanogaster. Shimamoto T, et al. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1991 Dec 31
- Sequence and gene organization of the chicken mitochondrial genome. A novel gene order in higher vertebrates. Desjardins P, et al. J Mol Biol 1990 Apr 20
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