Man with Huge, well, you get the idea...
Posted on 05/25/2006 10:56:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Hoping to get their roosters in a row, chicken researchers gathered earlier this month at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and hatched plans for analyzing the first bird genome. Eighteen months after an initial draft of the chicken sequence was released, bioinformaticists are still struggling to identify the fowl's 20,000 or so genes.
Chicken genome researchers face a host of obstacles including insufficient funding, confusing new gene names, conflicting computer predictions, and the need to nudge other chicken scientists into the genomics world. The ancestor of domesticated chickens, the red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus), is the lone avian among a dozen vertebrates already sequenced, and comparison with other genomes is difficult because the chicken evolved 300 million years ago--much, much earlier than humans or mice.
David Burt, a molecular biologist at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, U.K., has asked U.S. and British science agencies for money to set up a consortium to characterize the bird's genes. But getting organized is tough, says Wes Warren of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. "We have two different communities"--agricultural poultry scientists and biomedical researchers using chickens to study diseases--who have had little in common.
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Man with Huge, well, you get the idea...
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A røøster once bit my sister.
Seriesly.
I hope it caused her to come out of her *shell*.
[rimshot!]
Not really.
She'd egged him into doing it.
[*groan*]....LOL!
If we make a small effort, I'm sure we can hatch dozens of these.
I'm still a little hurt that this one didn't get more response:
Scientists: Bison in Illinois earlier (aren't you relieved?)
South Carolina homepage (thestate.com) | Tue, Aug. 30, 2005 | Associated Press
Posted on 09/03/2005 10:17:31 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
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It'll give us something to do while cooped up in the house, waiting for warmer weather.
[how long til other FReepers punch us both in the snoots?]...;D
You'll not hear a peep out of me about it.
There are some master craftsmen of puns on FR. I'm sure they'll get here sooner or later and back us up (or rather, draw fire). ;')
I'd feather not speculate why it wasn't more popular.
Well, that'll pluck things up!
Grappling With The Chicken Genome.
People were too chicken to comment on it?
And if this happens with rooster posted above....
Silly rabbit...chicks are for chicks.
Half chicken, half flamingo.
If Russia attacks Turkey from the rear, do you think Greece would help?
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