A Preliminary Biophysical Report on the Fertilized Eggs Traveled with Spaceflight

This paper studies the difference in the eggs of fowls that have traveled in space to that of a control group. After the eggs had traveled in space onboard the Chinese ShenZhou III in 2002, a total of three silky fowls (one male and two females) and their subsequent generations of more than 1000 chicken have been hatched and bred on the ground. Over the past three years, the authors have contrasted the population to the sibling of silky fowls and the control group which mimic space bio-effect synchronously on the ground. Biophysical parameters (physical growth and development, reproductive capability, propagation, physiological biochemistry, immune function, nutrition and food consumption) have been investigated. Biomarkers such as simple sequence repeats (SSR) and random amplify polymorphic DNA (RAPD) were also used for the genetic analysis