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SUBMITTER: Miao YW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3668654 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Miao Y-W YW Peng M-S MS Wu G-S GS Ouyang Y-N YN Yang Z-Y ZY Yu N N Liang J-P JP Pianchou G G Beja-Pereira A A Mitra B B Palanichamy M G MG Baig M M Chaudhuri T K TK Shen Y-Y YY Kong Q-P QP Murphy R W RW Yao Y-G YG Zhang Y-P YP
Heredity 20121205 3
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 highest possible level of molecular resolution, 50 representative samples were further ...[more]