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1. Chicken Genome Sequence-Related Sites

• BIRDBASE

• Gallus Genome GBrowse

• AGBASE at Mississippi State U.

• GENOME SEQUENCE:
  UCSC Chicken Genome BrowserGateway
  NCBI Chicken Genome Resources
  EBI's Ensembl Chicken Genome Browser
  Washington U. Genome Sequencing Center chicken site

• BAC CONTIG PHYSICAL MAP AND RELATED:
  BAC Contig Physical Map using ChickFPC
  


• CHICKEN SNPs:
  Beijing U. Chicken Variation Database
  BBSRC ChickEST Database, U. of Manchester
  Or see the browser sites shown above.


• SELECTED NEWS ABOUT THE SEQUENCE:
  Nature web focus
  "Chickens join the genome club" by Roxanna Khamsi
  "Chickens through history" slide show, link at the previous URL
  NIH Press Release
  
 
• CHICKEN CHIPS:
  ARK-GENOMICS
  Affymetrix, Inc. GeneChip(r) Chicken Genome Array
  Nimblegen

• CHICKEN at ArkDB

• SOME CHICKEN EST SITES:
  BBSRC ChickEST Database, U. of Manchester
  U. of Delaware EST Database
  NCBI dbEST
  TIGR Gene Indices for chicken

Chicken Full-length cDNA Database

Chicken EST contig browser

• BAC RESOURCES:
  CHORI-261 Red Jungle Fowl BACs and CHORI-260 turkey BACs
  Texas A&M Red Jungle Fowl BACs, GENEfinder Genomic Resources
  Wageningen U. White Leghorn BACs at the UK Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Center for filter sets.

• IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION ANALYSES:
  GEISHA

• NOMENCLATURE: Guidelines for naming chicken genes, loci, alleles
  
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2. Poultry

• Chicken QTLdb at Iowa State University
• NIH Model Organisms for Biomedical Research - Chicken
• U. Delaware Chick EST Project
• BBSRC/European Union/Incyte Chicken EST Project
• Chicken IMAGE, European EST Consortium
• Avian Net at Purdue University
• Minnesota Turkey Genome Mapping Site
• The Chicken Coop
• Texas A&M Poultry Science Dept.
• Poultry Science Association
• California Poultry Industry Federation (CPIF)
• Avian Genetic Resources at Risk: An Assessment and Proposal for Conservation of Genetic Stocks in the USA and Canada. (UCDavis-Genetic Resources Conservation Program).
• RELATED AVIAN GENETIC RESOURCES AT RISK LETTER (Miller et al., Nature, December 16, 2004). A copy that includes all the co-signers is available on our web site under "Information" and at the UC Davis Poultry and Avian Research Resources site.
  
• IPI - Chicken International Protein Index

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3. Other Livestock

• U.S. Pig Gene Mapping
• U.S. Cattle Gene Mapping
• Horse Gene Mapping
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