The chicken continues to hold its position as a leading model organism within many areas of
research, as well as being a major source of protein for human consumption. The First …

Background Understanding how evolutionary forces relating to climate have shaped the
patterns of genetic variation within and between species is a fundamental pursuit in biology …

Simple Summary The search for genomic regions of putative selective signaling is
instrumental in obtaining information about selection history in various species and …

The genetic improvement of economic traits suggests that chicken is an excellent model for
exploring the genetic changes and molecular mechanisms underlying phenotypic diversity …

Simple Summary Most Chinese local breeds have slow growth speed and high fat
deposition, while European commercial chicken strains belong to fast-growing chicken …

Runs of homozygosity (ROH) are widely used to investigate genetic diversity, demographic
history, and positive selection signatures of livestock. Commercial breeds provide excellent …

Recent advances in the selective breeding of broilers and layers have made poultry
production one of the fastest‐growing industries. In this study, a transcriptome variant calling …

Simple Summary A collection of native farm animal breeds can be considered as a gene
pool and a national heritage. Long-term artificial selection in domesticated animals has …

Abstract Background In Tibet, the two most important breeds are Tibetan chicken and Lhasa
white chicken, and the duo exhibit specific adaptations to the high altitude thereby supplying …

Background Runs of homozygosity (ROH) are continuous homozygous regions typically
located in the DNA sequence of diploid organisms. Identifications of ROH that lead to …