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. 2018 Oct 9;9:456. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2018.00456

Table 2.

Worldwide availability of genetically modified chickens.

Transgenic chicken Affiliation of the research group Country References
Transgenic chickens carrying a benign defective subgroup A leukosis virus Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory, USDA Agriculture Research Service USA Salter and Crittenden, 1989; Cao et al., 2015
Transgenic chickens expressing active β-lactamase in the egg white AviGenics, Inc., Georgia BioBusiness Center, Athens USA Harvey et al., 2002
eGFP expressing chickens The Roslin Institute and Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh UK McGrew et al., 2004
Department of Physiology, Catholic University of Daegu School of Medicine South Korea Kwon et al., 2004
University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Neurobiology, and Anatomy USA Chapman et al., 2005
Crystal Bioscience/ Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc USA Van De Lavoir et al., 2006
Technical University Munich, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan; Department of Animal Sciences, Reproductive Biotechnology Germany Trefil et al., 2017
Hens specifically expressing therapeutic proteins in the oviduct The Roslin Institute and Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh UK Lillico et al., 2007
Production of transgenic chickens expressing a tetracycline-inducible eGFP gene Department of Physiology, Catholic University of Daegu School of Medicine, Daegu South Korea Kwon et al., 2011
Short-hairpin RNA against Influenza expressing chickens Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge UK Lyall et al., 2011
Transgenic chickens expressing human extracellular superoxide dismutase Laboratory of Dermatology-immunology, The Catholic University of Korea South Korea Byun et al., 2013
Immunoglobulin heavy chain (JH) KO chickens Crystal Bioscience/ Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc USA Schusser et al., 2013a
Transgenic chickens expressing the human urokinase type-plasminogen activator Department of Animal Biotechnology, Bio-Organ Research Center, Konkuk University South Korea Lee et al., 2013
CSF1R-receptor reporter chickens The Roslin Institute and Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh UK Balic et al., 2014
Immunoglobulin light chain (IgL) KO chickens Crystal Bioscience/Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc USA Schusser et al., 2016
Cre-recombinase expressing chickens Crystal Bioscience/Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc USA Leighton et al., 2016
Ovalbumin and Ovomucoid KO chickens Biomedical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and Animal Breeding and Reproduction Research Division Japan Oishi et al., 2016
Aromatase overexpressing chickens Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Clayton Australia Lambeth et al., 2016b
mCherry expressing chickens Technical University Munich, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Department of Animal Sciences, Reproductive Biotechnology Germany Trefil et al., 2017
BIOPHARM, Research Institute of Biopharmacy and Veterinary Drugs and Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences Czech Republic
DDX4 KO chickens The Roslin Institute and Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh UK Taylor et al., 2017
3D8 single chain variable fragment (scFv) expressing chickens Animal Biotechnology Division, National Institute of Animal Science and Department of Avian Disease Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine South Korea June Byun et al., 2017
Chickens with humanized immunoglobulin genes Crystal Bioscience/ Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc USA Ching et al., 2018
Chickens overexpressing human IFN-β Biomedical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Japan Oishi et al., 2018