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Analyses of mitogenomic markers shed light on the divergence, population dynamics, and demographic history of Pakistani chickens.
Mitochondrial DNA. Part A, DNA mapping, sequencing, and analysis - 1 Jan 2021
Khan Sawar, Nisar Ayesha, Ahmad Habib, Mehmood Sardar Azhar, Hameed Muddassar, Zhao Xiaochao, Yang Xiangshu, Feng Xingang
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Pakistan is one of a few sites, associated with the earliest known independent domestication event in the evolutionary history of chicken, which is socio-economically and historically the most important poultry bird in the country. However, the divergence, past population dynamics, and demographic history of Pakistani chickens have not been addressed so far. Therefore, we herein investigated the indigenous...
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