Indigenous village chickens (IVCs) greatly contribute to food security and rural development.
Consequently, IVCs cover incidental expenses, economically empower women, and support …

Chicken is a major source of protein for the increasing human population and is useful for
research purposes. There are almost 1,600 distinct regional breeds of chicken across the …

Introduction Investigating the genetic footprints of historical temperature selection can get
insights to the local adaptation and feasible influences of climate change on long-term …

Breeding for climate resilience is currently an important goal for sustainable livestock
production. Local adaptations exhibited by indigenous livestock allow investigating the …

Gamecock chickens are one of the earliest recorded birds in China, and have accumulated
some unique morphological and behavioral signatures such as large body size, muscularity …

Following chicken domestication, diversified chicken breeds were developed by both natural
and artificial selection, which led to the accumulation of abundant genetic and phenotypic …

Background Various regions of the chicken genome have been under natural and artificial
selection for thousands of years. The substantial diversity that exits among chickens from …

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

Background Availability of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping arrays and
progress in statistical analyses have allowed the identification of genomic regions and …

Runs of homozygosity (ROH) are chromosomal stretches that in a diploid genome appear in
a homozygous state and display identical alleles at multiple contiguous loci. This study …