If you have viewed our homepage or when you view our homepage, you will see that we are far from finished in its development.
We decided it was better to get up and running and show you our dirty laundry for your input than waiting to clean everything up first (in this business, technology is always jumping back ahead of you anyway).
Efforts have been on-going worldwide to map markers on both panels so that the maps can be fused. This is crucial in order to make appropriate linkages in the databases, to compare animal genes to human genes, and to use characters that computers can utilize and print.
Given the size of the two populations, there clearly will be differences in genetic distances (furthermore, meioses in the Compton panel are in females and in males in the East Lansing panel, so there will likely be a sex bias in recombination frequencies), however the goal will be to agree on common linkage groups where possible and, eventually, on marker order for the common markers. A summary of nomenclature guidelines is available on the homepage and will be printed as a supplement to the March issue of Trends in Genetics, along with similar information for other animals and for plants.
That which is presently available owes much of its development to material imported as whole cloth from Max Rothschild's Pig Genome Homepage and/or from Dave Burt's Homepage at the Roslin Institute.
You will see many things that are not yet available or still provide "Pig" information. THERE IS A HANDY ELECTRONIC SIGNUP AND COMMENT SHEET AT THE BOTTOM WHICH MAKES IN VERY EASY FOR YOU TO TELL US WHAT YOU WANT. : A few tricks to negotiating our homepage: You will initially see some general information (nomenclature rules, glossary, etc.), "Poultry Gene Mapping Activities", and "The Chick Map Home Page at the Roslin Institute". Click on "Poultry Gene Mapping Activities" to get to a menu of coordination information including our address list of interested participants, copies of newsletters, updated meetings list, etc.
The QGRC was established in 1982 with the mandate to conserve and manage Japanese quail (coturnix japonica) as a genetic resource that is accessible to the research community. plumage colour, photoperiod sensitivity, flightiness, docility etc.) 27 single gene mutations (almost 50% of all morphological mutations reported for this species) Selected strains (e.g.
atherosclerosis resistant/susceptible, heavy bodyweight) Captive wild population SERVICES AVAILABLE: Provide fertile eggs and/or birds from existing strains Develop particular strains for research projects (by selective breeding or by importation from known source) Maintenance of experimental birds under basic or special care until required for experiment consultation facilities available for visiting scientists to carry out their research at the QGRC UTILIZING Japanese quail from the QGRC in research projects will ensure: 1.
Received: from ca (mail.ca [1.14]) by pop-2.(8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA13370 for From: kmtc_at_ca (Kim Cheng) Subject: Research animals THE QUAIL GENETIC RESOURCE CENTRE at the University of British Columbia MANDATE: The QGRC is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.I wish to receive suggestions about linkage analysis for RAPD markers.What computer program would be most feasible for RDPD markers?Once subscribed, you can send text to all list participants via email to: genomemap_at_ Visitor from the East: Nat Bumstead from the Institute for Animal Health in Compton, England visited East Lansing from March 14 to 19.We're just starting the mail list, so it will take a little while for enough subscribers to join to make it widely useful. The primary purpose for the visit was to confer with Lyman Crittenden on how we can fuse data from the two international reference mapping panels developed at Compton and East Lansing into one consensus map. ) from Species Coordinator to Co-Coordinator as of last October, Critt has been concentrating on cleaning up the sticky business of genetic nomenclature for chicken gene mapping.