8 datasets found

Sex in birds is genetically determined, molecular mechanism of which is not well-understood. Their Z sex chromosome (chrZ) lacks whole chromosome inactivation as known for...

Study to investigate IFITM locus in chickens This data is part of a pre-publication release. For information on the proper use of pre-publication data shared by the Wellcome...

Commonly used 16S rRNA primers miss much of the archaeal diversity present in the vertebrate gut, leaving open the question of which archaea are host associated, the...

Avian influenza, caused by highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAI) such as H5N1, is responsible for enormous economic losses in the poultry industry and poses a serious...

This study determines that genome skimming, shallow depth of sequencing, is capable of accurately quantifying global DNA methylation level across a range of vertebrates.

Study of sex differences in expression

RNA-Seq of vertebrate representatives in order to understand the development and organization of mucosal secondary lymphoid tissue.

Large-scale metagenome assemblies of human microbiomes have produced a huge catalogue of previously unseen genomic data, but has been applied to only a few of the >66 000...