Egg drop syndrome (EDS) is caused by a hemagglutinating adenovirus which has become a major cause of lost egg production and sever economic losses in breeder and layer chicken flocks throughout the world. A PCR assay was optimized for detection of EDS virus in inoculated allantoic fluids (AFs) of duck and chicken emberyonated eggs. Two strains of EDS viruses were propagated in allantoic cavit...

Melanocortin-3 receptor (MC3R) plays an important role in the central control of energy homeostasis, and several functional polymorphisms of this gene have been detected. We have studied MC3R as a candidate gene responsible for variation in economically important traits in chicken. To determine the association between MC3R polymorphism and phenotypic variation, a total of 190 individuals from b...

1. Antisera have been produced in chickens with specific precipitates from Type II pneumococcus horse and rabbit antisera. 2. Specific precipitates from anti-Types I and II pneumococcus horse sera removed the same amount of antibody from the chicken anti-horse specific precipitate serum. Specific precipitates from horse antisera to diphtheria toxin and to crystalline egg albumin removed about o...

Which comes first, divine agency or the calculations of diviners? Both are integral to divination, other predictive methods, and ‘hatching out’ new creation stories among Nuosu Southwest China. In this article, I present ethnography on divination in which eggs evoke person’s position world while bodies bones chickens indices health prosperity. When cracking open raw eggs, peeling slaughtered ch...

White leghorn hens were immunized intramuscularly with formalin killed Klebsiella pneumoniae cells to generate Klebsiella pneumoniae antibodies (IgY) in egg yolk. Booster injections of increasing concentrations of antigen were given to raise the antibody level in egg yolk. Amount of protein varied from 0.87 7.4mg/ml in egg yolk throughout the immunization period. The antibodies were partially p...