Simple, sensitive and robust chicken specific sexing assays, compliant with large scale analysis.

ABSTRACT: Chicken meat and eggs are important sources of food for the world population. The significant increase in food demand has pushed the food industry toward a rapid non-expensive production which in turn raises ethical issues. How chicken are cultivated and processed in food industry is no longer acceptable. Ethical and economical concerns emerging from chicken culling need to be solved in the near future. Indeed, in egg production industry, male chicken are killed at the age of 1-day post-hatching since they are not egg producers. A number of laboratory all over the world are looking for innovative non-invasive sexing methods to determine the sex of chicken in the early stages of the development before hatching. It will allow males' chicken elimination before the pain-feeling stages. In orde

SUBMITTER: He L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6396912 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature