Turkey Genome Sequencing Consortium awarded $0.9 million from US...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sun, 11/22/2009 - 23:00

(Virginia Tech) Turkey is the fourth most economically important source of meat for consumers in the United States.

The genome sequence and genomic resources should provide turkey breeders with the tools needed to improve commercial breeds of turkey for production traits such as meat yield and quality, health and disease resistance, and fertility and reproduction.

The sequence work is now about 90 percent complete.


 

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