Publications:

  • The International Chicken Polymorphism Map Consortium. (2004) A genetic variation map for chicken with 2.8 million single nucleotide polymorphisms. Nature , 432, 717-722. [Full text]. 
  • Degen W.D.J., van Daal N, Rothwell L., Kaiser P. & Schijns V.E.C.J. (2005) Th1/Th2 polarization by viral and helminth infection in birds. Veterinary Microbiology, 105, 163-167. [Summary]. 
  • Kaiser P., Poh T.Y., Rothwell L., Avery S., Balu S., Pathania U.S., Hughes S., Goodchild M., Morrell S., Watson M., Bumstead N., Kaufman J. & Young J.R. (2005) A genomic analysis of chicken cytokines and chemokines. Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research , 25, 467-484. [Abstract]. 
  • Rothwell L., Young J., Zoorob R., Whittaker C.A., Hesketh P., Archer A., Smith A.L. & Kaiser P. (2004) Cloning and characterisation of chicken IL-10 and its role in the immune response to Eimeria maxima. The Journal of Immunology , 173, 2675-2682. [Abstract]. 
  • Avery S., Rothwell L., Degen W.D.J., Schijns V.E.C.J., Young J., Kaufman J. & Kaiser P. (2004) Characterization of the first non-mammalian T2 cytokine gene cluster: the cluster contains functional single-copy genes for IL-3, IL-4, IL-13 and GM-CSF, a gene for IL-5 which appears to be a pseudogene, and a gene encoding another cytokine-like transcript, KK34. Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research , 24, 600-610. [Full Text]
  • Kaiser P. (2007) The avian immune genome - a glass half-full or half-empty? Cytogenetic and Genome Research , 117, 221-230. [Full Text]