Ancient DNA reveals how a chicken virus evolved to become more deadly | University of Oxford ox.ac.uk/news/2023-12-1…

Selection on the promoter regions plays an important role in complex traits during duck domestication dlvr.it/T0TPHg

Congratulations to colleagues on their publication highlighting the importance of promoter regions during duck domestication #duck #genomics BMC Biology doi.org/10.1186/s12915…

Great Poultry workshop today at #PAG31. Excellent talks from all the speakers

The white crowned sparrow genome is now available! Congratulations to Zhou_Wu and all co-authors Simone Meddle Kasia M. Jesse Krause Jonathan Perez #johnwingfield #scientificreports #sparrow #genome rdcu.be/dwiKY

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Congratulations to مفتا ح on her very nice paper on selective sweep analysis of heat stress in Nigerian chickens Olivier Hanotte Tadelle Dessie and Almas and Oladeji #chicken #heatstress #genome nature.com/articles/s4159…

A new duck genome assembly: bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… #duck #genome BMC Biology

We are hiring - job vacancy in Edinburgh Genomics lab. Come and join the amazing team here. Click link for more details elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

An excellent review of avian chromosome evolution Darren Griffin doi.org/10.3390/cells1…

I am co-editing a Special Issue in Applied Sciences entitled 'Applied Genomics and Bioinformatics for the Poultry Industry'. If you have a suitable paper, then please consider publishing here. Deadline: 20th September 2024 mdpi.com/journal/applsc…

Delighted to announce that a new nf-core preprint manuscript has just gone live! A collaboration with EuroFAANG, the paper covers updates to Nextflow and nf-core, and describes the experience of the EuroFAANG adopted nf-core. Let's dive in...🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A genome assembly for the Lapland Longspur is now available in NCBI: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/genom… #avian #genome #NCBI Zhou_Wu Simone Meddle Jesse Krause

H5N1 Is Increasingly Adapting to Mammals New preprint "shows clear mammal-to-mammal transmission of the virus." Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… UC Davis report: ucdavis.edu/health/news/h5…

A single nuclei study of chicken immune organs. Now on #BioRxiv. A great genomics resource - congratulations to all authors 🐔 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Congratulations to all co-authors on publication of this paper investigating regions of the chicken genome potentially involved in HPAI resistance #chicken #flu #HPAI #H5N2 The Roslin Institute MDPI mdpi.com/1422-0067/25/1…

📣New Research Topic open for submission! Accepting manuscripts on topics related to host innate immune responses to avian- and bat-borne viruses. Led by Dr. Efstathios Giotis (University of Essex), Jacqueline Smith (Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh) and Xing-Yi Ge