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Genomic insight into the influence of selection, crossbreeding, and geography on population structure in poultry.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 20 Jan 2023
Wu Zhou, Bosse Mirte, Rochus Christina M, Groenen Martien A M, Crooijmans Richard P M A
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BACKGROUND: In poultry, the population structure of local breeds is usually complex mainly due to unrecorded breeding. Local chicken breeds offer an interesting proxy to understand the complexity of population structure in the context of human-mediated development of diverse morphologies and varieties. We studied 37 traditional Dutch chicken breeds to investigate population structure and the corresponding genomic...
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