Establishment of a cold-tolerant poultry population with Eider Duck genes

   The colder regions of the Earth are currently even less habitable for humans than the warmer regions.  One of the reasons for this is the...

 

 The colder regions of the Earth are currently even less habitable for humans than the warmer regions.  One of the reasons for this is the factors that hinder the production of food locally.

 Due to the extreme climate of the cold areas of the Earth, there are few living things: plants and animals can live in these regions that are also fit for human consumption.  For this reason, for larger human populations, food would have to be transported remotely to cold regions, which is uneconomical in the long run.

 Therefore, in order for the colder regions of the Earth to become habitable, man must be provided with the opportunity to produce food locally in these areas.

 One possible way to do this is to breed cold-tolerant poultry populations, which can be done by genetic modification and the creation of new transgenic poultry if we find animals on Earth that have traits and genes that bring these traits to life that can keep our pets cold.

 One such property may be the modification of the feathers of poultry, as a result of which the feathers of poultry are better protected from the cold.  The task, then, is to find a bird that has feathers with a structure that better protects them from the cold, and then to identify the genes responsible for growing these types of feathers in the bird.  These genes are then transplanted into the DNA of domestic poultry so that they can then grow such feathers.

 One such bird whose feathers provide it with greater protection from the cold is the Eider Duck.  Due to the larger barbules and more microscopic prongs on the feathers of the Eider Duck, the bird is better protected from the cold by cold insulation.

 So I suggest transferring the feather-growing genes of Eider Duck to poultry.  To create cold-tolerant transgenic organisms from poultry populations, which could be one way to ensure human food production locally in cold areas.

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Journal of Avian Biology | April 5, 2017 |  Liliana D’alba, Thomas Holm Carlsen, Árni Ásgeirsson , Matthew D. Shawkey, and Jón Einar Jónsson