Domestic chicken (Gallus domesticus) is one type of poultry that has experienced domestication and spread throughout the archipelago. Chicken consumed by humans should be in a healthy condition free from various types parasites. Information about infected with parasites needed to maintain animal health prevent occurrence zoonotic diseases. Research been carried out on Karang Bongkot Village, La...

BACKGROUND Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have attracted significant attention in recent years due to their important roles in many biological processes. Domestic animals constitute a unique resource for understanding the genetic basis of phenotypic variation and are ideal models relevant to diverse areas of biomedical research. With improving sequencing technologies, numerous domestic-animal ln...

STRATEGIES FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF RURAL CHICKEN PRODUCTION IN GHANA. Rural poultry production systems in Ghana and in Africa as a whole are based on the scavenging indigenous domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus), the predominant species in the poultry sector [1]. In most African countries scavenging chicken have no regular health control programmes, may or may not have shelter and usually have to ...

Research with a variety of genetic stocks has produced many important discoveries in the areas of genetics, virology, immunology, developmental biology, and animal agriculture. (see CRAWFORD 1990, for a review). These include the pioneering studies on Mendelian inheritance and sex determination of BATESON (1902), and BATESON and PUNNETT (1906, 1908). Not surprisingly, given its history of use i...

The thyroid stimulating hormone receptor gene (TSHR) has been suggested to be a "domestication locus" in the chicken. A strong selective sweep over TSHR in domestic breeds together with significant effects of a mutation in the gene on several domestication related traits, indicate that the gene has been important for chicken domestication. TSHR plays a key role in the signal transduction of sea...

Torque teno virus (TTV) is prevalent worldwide and has been extensively studied in human and some wild and domestic animals. As the studies on TTV in chickens was rare and there was no information about the infection of domestic village chickens with TTV and also structural resemblance of this virus to chicken anemia virus, the frequency of the infection in domestic village chickens in differen...

The comparative study of proteins is being used with greater frequency to produce information concerning genetic differences among species. Such studies make it increasingly evident that there may not be a strict correlation between degree of genetic difference and degree of difference at the supramolecular or organismal level. This point can be illustrated by the results of comparing proteins ...