Scientists Map Genetic Code of the Chicken
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The chicken has joined the likes of people, chimpanzees, mice and the roundworm with its genetic code mapped out and published for all to see.
It is the first bird genome to be mapped. Richard Wilson and his colleagues at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis assembled the genome of the red jungle fowl, known scientifically as Gallus gallus.
