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Chicken domestication: an updated perspective based on mitochondrial genomes.
Heredity - 1 Mar 2013
Miao Y-W, Peng M-S, Wu G-S, Ouyang Y-N, Yang Z-Y, Yu N, Liang J-P, Pianchou G, Beja-Pereira A, Mitra B, Palanichamy M G, Baig M, Chaudhuri T K, Shen Y-Y, Kong Q-P, Murphy R W, Yao Y-G, Zhang Y-P
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Domestic chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) fulfill various roles ranging from food and entertainment to religion and ornamentation. To survey its genetic diversity and trace the history of domestication, we investigated a total of 4938 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) fragments including 2843 previously published and 2095 de novo units from 2044 domestic chickens and 51 red junglefowl (Gallus gallus). To obtain the...
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