/ Chicken Genome Content for 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis en /blog/uc-davis-researchers-unlock-valuable-information-chicken-genome <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Chickens provide one of the world's most popular animal proteins, with billions of birds grown every year for eggs and meat. Interpreting the farm animal’s genome is vital for understanding how genes control traits, such as growth, feed efficiency, reproduction and disease resistance.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> May 04, 2023 - 3:03pm Andy Fell /blog/uc-davis-researchers-unlock-valuable-information-chicken-genome /news/mareks-disease-study-0 <p>A new study from 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis and the U.S. Department of Agriculture describes how vaccines insert themselves into the chicken’s chromosomes to&nbsp;work against Marek's disease, a deadly virus of chickens, and how the vaccine's activity could offer a model for related human herpesvirus&nbsp;diseases such as chickenpox.</p> November 17, 2016 - 4:18pm Patricia Bailey /news/mareks-disease-study-0