The post, by Dr Damer Blake and Professor Fiona Tomley, focuses on a study they have been involved with relating to chickens and sequencing pathogen genomes.

It also stresses on how, after more than ten years of work, genomes are now completed for the most important group of parasites that infect chickens.

This new knowledge offers exciting prospects for better control of the globally devastating chicken gut disease, coccidiosis.

You can view the blog post Parasite genomics for poultry: one less reason for the chicken to cross the road by clicking here.