News tagged with turkey genome
Researchers publish turkey genome sequence
An international consortium of researchers has completed the majority of the genome sequence of the domesticated turkey, publishing it in the online open-access journal PLoS Biology next week. In 2008, the research consor ...
Sep 07, 2010 |
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Deadly bird parasite evolves at exceptionally fast rate
A new study of a devastating bird disease that spread from poultry to house finches in the mid-1990s reveals that the bacteria responsible for the disease evolves at an exceptionally fast rate. What's more, ...
Feb 09, 2012 |
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When did the feather take flight?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some 125 million years ago--more recently than once thought possible -- the molecular structure of the modern feather began to take form, according to molecular dating research by scientists ...
Feb 07, 2012 |
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The globe-trotting turkey: Genetic research promises to improve upon a multi-continent breeding effort
The great majority of today's domesticated turkeys may not be able to fly, but their ancestors sure got around. The quintessential New World bird, Meleagris gallopavo, was already an Old World favorite by ...
Nov 23, 2011 |
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How drought-tolerant grasses came to be
If you eat bread stuffing or grain-fed turkey this Thanksgiving, give thanks to the grasses — a family of plants that includes wheat, oats, corn and rice. Some grasses, such as corn and sugar cane, have ...
Nov 23, 2011 |
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New test can precisely pinpoint food pathogens
(PhysOrg.com) -- With Salmonella-tainted ground turkey sickening more than 100 people and Listeria-contaminated cantaloupes killing 15 this year, the ability to detect outbreaks of food-borne illness and determine their sources ...
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Multi-omics strategy gives systems-level insight toward Salmonella pathogenesis
Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Oregon Health & Science University combined extensive ‘omics measurements with a novel computational network analysis approach to better understand ...
Sep 20, 2011 |
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Research traces bacteria in salmonella outbreaks
(Medical Xpress) -- During such mass food-poisoning outbreaks as the recent contamination of ground turkey, speedy identification of the bacteria involved can save lives and reduce illness. New research co-authored ...
Aug 31, 2011 |
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Nationwide study finds US meat and poultry is widely contaminated
Drug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria linked to a wide range of human diseases, are present in meat and poultry from U.S. grocery stores at unexpectedly high rates, according to a nationwide study by the ...
Apr 15, 2011 |
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Investigating the domestication of dogs through DNA
Most animal lovers can't resist bringing home the occasional stray dog. Imagine, then, having to fight this impulse every day, and on the other side of the world, all while trying to maintain some measure ...
Feb 25, 2011 |
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Doctors use sick boy's DNA in diagnosis, treatment
Doctors and scientists in Wisconsin have published the first detailed account of a groundbreaking medical case in which they sequenced all the genes of a very sick young boy from Monona, Wis., and used the information to ...
Dec 20, 2010 |
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