Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution

We present here a draft genome sequence of the red jungle fowl, Gallus gallus. Because the chicken is a modern descendant of the dinosaurs and the first non-mammalian amniote to have its genome sequenced, the draft sequence of its genome-composed of approximately one billion base pairs of sequence a...

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Main Authors: Hillier, L, Miller, W, Birney, E, Warren, W, Hardison, R, Ponting, C, Bork, P, Burt, D, Groenen, M, Delany, M, Dodgson, J, Chinwalla, A, Cliften, P, Clifton, S, Delehaunty, K, Fronick, C, Fulton, R, Graves, T, Kremitzki, C, Layman, D, Magrini, V, McPherson, J, Miner, T, Minx, P, Nash, W
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2004