Applied Genomics and Bioinformatics for the Poultry Industry
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 March 2025 | Viewed by 439
Special Issue Editors
Interests: poultry genetics and breeding; genomics; bioinformatics
Interests: avian genomics; chickens; host responses to infection; disease resistance; avian influenza; Marek’s disease; environmental adaptation
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Interests: poultry genetics and breeding; genomics; bioinformation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Poultry eggs and meat are the main sources of animal protein for humans, and feathers are widely used by humans for multiple reasons. With more than ten years of genome selection and genetic improvement, poultry, as a high-quality livestock, could produce protein efficiently and cheaply. Poultry faces intense breeding pressure due to the poverty resulting from rapid population growth and the consumption and climate issues associated with poultry farming. The adoption of new breeding technologies directly influences this pressure. Developing genomics and bioinformatics is critical for improving poultry breeding performance, including meat, fat, reproduction, disease resistance, feather color, and so on, which can aid in breeding design and trait improvement.
Therefore, we are interested in articles that discuss improving poultry breeding performance through genomics and bioinformatics. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- High-quality poultry genome assembly and annotation;
- Methods and applications of poultry genome selection and genome mating;
- Methods for evaluating the value of poultry breeding;
- Genetic mechanisms of important economic traits in poultry;
- Selection feature of genomes during poultry domestication;
- Excavation of variations related to poultry economic traits;
- The interaction between gut microbiota and host genome in poultry;
- Regulatory networks for important biological processes in poultry;
- Data resources for poultry panomics;
- Identification of populations' genetic diversity in poultry;
- Transcriptional regulatory dynamics of economic traits in poultry.
Prof. Dr. Zhuocheng Hou
Dr. Jacqueline Smith
Prof. Dr. Qinghua Nie
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- genomics
- bioinformatics
- genome selection
- genome mating
- poultry domestication
- gut microbiota
- transcriptional regulatory dynamics
- genetic diversity
- high-quality genome
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