The wild species genome ancestry of domestic chickens
Raman Akinyanju Lawal,
Simon H. Martin,
Koen Vanmechelen,
Addie Vereijken,
Pradeepa Silva,
Raed Mahmoud Al-Atiyat,
Riyadh Salah Aljumaah,
Joram M. Mwacharo,
Dong-Dong Wu,
Ya-Ping Zhang,
Paul M. Hocking,
Jacqueline Smith,
David Wragg,
Olivier Hanotte
Jun 06, 2020
Abstract: Background: Hybridisation and introgression play key roles in the evolutionary history of animal species. They are commonly observed within several orders in wild birds. The domestic chicken Gallus gallus domesticus is...