Yu Jiang team publishes chicken single-cell and spatial transcriptome cross-species atlas in Nature Communications

Yu Jiang's team and colleagues published a chicken single-cell and spatial transcriptome atlas in Nature Communications, covering 36 organs and 157 cell types across the whole body. Combining embryonic spatial transcriptomics with integrated single-cell data from chicken, duck, turtle and human, the study characterizes conservation and species specificity in amniote immune cell evolution. According to the paper, the work provides theoretical and data support for disease-resistance breeding in poultry, basic immunology research, and zoonosis control.