Article
Population structure of four Thai indigenous chicken breeds.
BMC genetics - 27 Mar 2014
Mekchay Supamit, Supakankul Pantaporn, Assawamakin Anunchai, Wilantho Alisa, Chareanchim Wanwisa, Tongsima Sissades
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In recent years, Thai indigenous chickens have increasingly been bred as an alternative in Thailand poultry market. Due to their popularity, there is a clear need to improve the underlying quality and productivity of these chickens. Studying chicken genetic variation can improve the chicken meat quality as well as conserving rare chicken species. To begin with, a minimal set of molecular markers that...
Topics
- Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis
- Animals
- Breeding
- Chickens
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype
- Phylogeny
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Thailand