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Genetic analysis of local Vietnamese chickens provides evidence of gene flow from wild to domestic populations.
BMC genetics - 8 Jan 2009
Berthouly C, Leroy G, Van T Nhu, Thanh H Hoang, Bed'Hom B, Nguyen B Trong, Vu Chi C, Monicat F, Tixier-Boichard M, Verrier E, Maillard J-C, Rognon X
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Previous studies suggested that multiple domestication events in South and South-East Asia (Yunnan and surrounding areas) and India have led to the genesis of modern domestic chickens. Ha Giang province is a northern Vietnamese region, where local chickens, such as the H'mong breed, and wild junglefowl coexist. The assumption was made that hybridisation between wild junglefowl and Ha Giang chickens...
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