Paul B. Siegel

Selected Publications (2018 - present)

Siegel, P. B. 2018. Thoughts on the evolution of the domestic chicken as food for humans. pp. 167-169, in: Animals and Human Society. C. G. Scanes and S. R. Toukhsati eds. Academic Press, Cambridge, MA.

Lillie, M., Z. Y. Sheng, C. F. Honaker, L. Andersson, P. B. Siegel, and Ö. Carlborg. 2018. Genomic signatures of 60 years of bidirectional selection for 8-week body weight in chickens. Poult. Sci. 97:781-790.

Sutherland, D. A. T., C. F. Honaker, B. Dorshorst, L. Andersson, and P. B. Siegel. 2018. Asymmetries, heterosis, and phenotypic profile of red junglefowl, White Plymouth Rocks, and F1 and F2 reciprocal crosses. J. Applied Genetics. 59:193-201.

Geiger, A. E., M. R. Daughtry, C. M. Gow, P. B. Siegel, H. Shi, and D. E. Gerrard. 2018. Long-term selection of chickens for body weight alters muscle satellite cell behaviors. Poult. Sci. 97:2557-2567.

Sutherland, D. A. T., C. F. Honaker, B. Dorshorst, L. Andersson, I. L. Brisbin, and P. B. Siegel. 2018. Growth patterns for three generations of an intercross between red junglefowl and chickens selected for low body weight. J. Anim. Breed. Genet. 135:300-310.

McConn, B., M. Cline, P. Siegel, E. Gilbert. 2019. Anorexigenic effects of mesotocin in chicks are genetic background-dependent and are associated with changes in the paraventricular nucleus and lateral hypothalamus. Comp. Biochem. and Physiol. – Part A. Molecular and Integr. Physiol. 232:79-90.

Lillie, M., C. F. Honaker, P. B. Siegel, and Ö. Carlborg. 2019. Bidirectional selection for body weight on standing genetic variation in a chicken model. G3 9:1165-1173.

Sutherland, D. A. T., C. F. Honaker, E. R. Gilbert, L. Andersson, and P. B. Siegel. 2019. Glucose tolerance and plasma non-esterified fatty acids in chickens selected for low body weight, red junglefowl, and the reciprocal cross. J. Poult. Sci. 56:245-252.

Siegel, P. B., K. Barger, and F. Siewerdt. 2019. Limb health in broiler breeding: History using genetics to improve welfare. J. Appl. Poult. Res. 28:785-790.                              

Rogers, E., S. M. Todd, F. W. Pierson, S. P. Kenney, C. L. Heffron, D. M. Yugo, S. R. Matzinger, E. Mircoff, I. Ngo, C. Kirby, M. Jones, P. Siegel, P. Jobst, K. Hall, R. J. Etches, X. -J. Meng, and T. LeRoith. 2019. CD8+ lymphocytes but not B lymphocytes are required for protection against chronic hepatitis E virus infection in chickens. J. Med. Virol. 91:1960-1969.

Guo, Y., M. Lillie, Y. Zan, J. Beranger, A. Martin, C. F. Honaker, P. B. Siegel, and Ö. Carlborg. 2019. A genomic inference of the White Plymouth Rock genealogy. Poult. Sci. 98:5272-5280.

Zan., Y., T. Payen, M. Lillie, C. F. Honaker, P. B. Siegel, and Ö. Carlborg. 2019. Genotyping by low-coverage whole-genome sequencing in intercross pedigrees from outbred founders: A cost efficient approach. Genet. Sel. Evol. doi: 10.1186/s12711-019-0487-1

Xiao, Y., G. Wang, M. E. Gerrard, S. Wieland, M. Davis, M. A. Cline, P. B. Siegel, and E. R. Gilbert. 2019. Changes in adipose tissue physiology during the first two weeks posthatch in chicks from lines selected for low or high body weight. Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol. 316:R802-R818.

Liu, L., J. Yi, W. K. Ray, L. T. Vu, R. F. Helm, P. B. Siegel, M. A. Cline, and E. R. Gilbert. 2019. Fasting differentially alters the hypothalamic proteome of chickens from lines with the propensity to be anorexic or obese. Nutr. Diabetes 9:13 doi: 10.1038/s41387-019-0081-1

McConn, B., A. Koskinen, D. M. Denbow, E. R. Gilbert, P. B. Siegel, and M. A. Cline. 2019. Central injection of oxytocin reduces food intake and affects hypothalamic and adipose tissue gene expression in chickens. Domestic Anim. Endocrinol. 67:11-20.

Li, J., B. W. Davis, P. Jern, B. J. Dorshorst, P. B. Siegel, and L. Andersson. 2019. Characterization of the endogenous retrovirus insertion in CYP19A1 associated with henny feathering in chicken. Mobile DNA 10:38 doi: 10.1186/s13100-019-0181-4

Xiao, Y., P. B. Siegel, M. A. Cline, and E. R. Gilbert. 2019. Short communication: Adipogenic, metabolic, and apoptotic marker mRNA in cellular fractions of adipose tissue from chickens predisposed to be anorexic or obese. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. Part A: Mol. Integr. Physiol. 238:110555 doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2019.110555

Aggrey, S. E., P. B. Siegel, and R. Rekaya. 2020. Breeding for sustainability and plasticity in functional traits: reality or fiction in the midst of conflicting interests. Chapt. 18, in: Advances in Poultry Genetics and Genomics. S. E. Aggrey et al. eds. Burleigh Dodds Sci. Pub. Cambridge, UK.

Li, J., B. W. Davis, S. Lamichhaney, B. J. Dorshorst, P. B. Siegel, and L. Andersson. 2020. Mutations upstream of the TBX5 and PITX1 transcription factor genes are associated with feathered legs in the domestic chicken. Mol. Biol. Evol. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msaa093

Yang, Y., Y. Zan, C. F. Honaker, P. B. Siegel, and Ö. Carlborg. 2020. Haplotype purging after relaxation of selection in lines of chickens that had undergone long-term selection for high and low body weight. Genes 11:630 doi: 10.3390/genes11060630

Xiao, Y., J. Wang, P. B. Siegel, M. A. Cline, and E. R. Gilbert. 2020. Early-life stress induced epigenetic changes of corticotropin-releasing factor gene in anorexic low body weight-selected chicks. Life 10 doi: 10.3390/life10050051

Kuchinsky, S. C., F. Frere, N. Heitzman-Breen, J. Golden, A. Vázquez, C. F. Honaker, P. B. Siegel, S. M. Ciupe, T. LeRoith, and N. K. Duggal. 2021. Pathogenesis and shedding of Usutu virus in juvenile chickens. Emerging Microbes Infections 10:725-738 doi: 10.1080/22221751.2021.1908850

 Nuthalapati, N., T. A. Burks, P. B. Siegel, R. L. Taylor, and G. T. Pharr. 2021. Protein tyrosine kinase gene expression profiles in the embryonic bursa of fabricius of chicken lines selected for high and low antibody responses. Int. J. Poult. Sci. 20:173-178 doi: 10.3923/ijps.2021.173.178