“…Most of the reports had not only looked into the biological characteristics of the virus but also sequenced the FPCS to determine the virulence of the virus [21,22,24,42]. There are also reports on isolation, biological characterization and FPCS sequence based pathotyping of NDV from backyard chicken [6] and other species of birds such as pigeons [18,24,40,42,46] Japanese quail [21], Turkey [37], Duck [47], crow [31], Emu [23] and Ostrich [45]. In fact there is also an isolation of a lentogenic strain of NDV from backyard chicken that has been completely characterised with respect to its biological and sequence (both the fusion (F) and Haemagglutinin neuraminidase (HN) genes) characteristics [6,32,34,43] and the same has been used in preparing an oral pellet vaccine.…”