In each successive generation of chicks, they segregate 60 or so offspring according to how the birds react, for example, to being touched by a person.
FVB and RF participated in the design of the study, generation of plasmid constructs, chick embryo electroporations, in situ hybridizations, immunohistochemistry, sequence alignments and analysis, and drafted the manuscript.
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Preliminary data using LB-SMGT through artificial insemination indicates the presence of the transgene in 49% (44/90) of chicken embryos by PCR (data not shown) and expression of the transgene, human interferon β, was detected in 53% (18/34) of chicks (F0 generation, data not shown).
For parents, six WL and six DX males were initially mated with 133 DX and 80 WL females and generated 1029 and 552 chicks for F1 generation, respectively.
At the F6 generation, a total of 1615 chicks were produced (98 to 248 per family) and phenotyped for MD resistance measured as survival time in days after challenge with a very virulent plus (vv+) strain of MDV.
In chick spinal cord development, generation of the six subtypes of sensory and motor neurons depends on distinct expression domains of Dll1 and Jag1 (Marklund et al., 2010).
Researchers had known for generations that if you injected a chick's wing with a certain cancer-causing virus a tumor would grow there.
However, MVA propagation is limited to chick embryo fibroblasts and a few other mammalian cell lines where yield is low, and the immunogenicity is not as robust compared with previous smallpox vaccine generations.
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We reasoned that locomotor pattern generation must be established prior to hatching, given that chicks walk within hours afterwards.
