Gallus gallus
The chicken has been the most studied bird. It serves as a model organism for basic and biomedical science, and is one of the most commonly consumed food sources for humans. This trio of samples was collected to create a high-quality reference genome for two haplotypes. The female offspring (bGalGal1) is a cross between a modern broiler breeder mother (bGalGal2) and white Leghorn father (bGalGal3). Breeding and sample collection was conducted by Nick Anthony at the University of Arkansas, in coordination with Wesley Warren, Ron Okimoto, Hans Cheng, and Rachel Hawken. Blood from these samples were used to create high-quality reference genome assemblies of each haplotype, coordinated by Erich Jarvis, Wesley Warren, and Olivier Fedrigo, at the Rockefeller University Vertebrate Genome Lab, as part of the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) and the Genome Reference Consortium (GRC).
isolate
bGalGal1
age
35 days
sex
female
tissue
Blood
biomaterial_provider
University of Arkansas
birth_date
15-Apr-2019
breed
Cross of Broiler mother + white leghorn layer father
collected_by
Nick Anthony
collection_date
2019-05-20
developmental_age
juvenile
geo_loc_name
USA:Fayetteville, Arkansas
lat_lon
36.0822 N 94.1719 W
store_cond
fresh
treatment
Ethanol
BioSampleModel
Model organism or animal