Poultry breeding in the post-genomics era

Abstract

1. I introduce the problems facing poultry breeding in the future and the role biotechnology may have to play.

2. I then review recent research in the genomics and bioinformatics of poultry and where this may lead in the near future.

3. Finally, I discuss the scientific and commercial opportunities of this research and strategies for implementation into poultry breeding practices.

Acknowledgements

All the scientific and commercial approaches I have described in this lecture come from many hours of discussion with my colleagues at the Roslin Institute and its predecessors. I am grateful to them for tolerating me for the last two decades.

Notes

This lecture was the 21st given in memory of the late Dr R.E.Gordon and was delivered at the Spring Meeting of the UK Branch of the World's Poultry Science Association in York on 25th March 2003

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Grahame Bulfield

This lecture was the 21st given in memory of the late Dr R.E.Gordon and was delivered at the Spring Meeting of the UK Branch of the World's Poultry Science Association in York on 25th March 2003