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 …

Simple Summary Poultry meat is an affordable, lean source of animal protein. Where does it
come from? Broilers (meat chickens) or turkeys raised on farms stem from core breeding …

旨在对中国地方鸡品种的遗传多样性与种群结构进行分析. 本研究使用Affymetrix Axiom 600K
高密度鸡基因分型芯片对来自8 个品种的157 只地方鸡及233 只商品鸡进行基因分型 …

Simple Summary The present review evaluates twenty years (2001 to 2021) of the study of
growth and performance in local chicken breeds worldwide. The assessment of …

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

Background The genomes of worldwide poultry breeds divergently selected for performance
and other phenotypic traits may also be affected by, and formed due to, past and current …

The increasing global demand for food, due to the continuous growth of human population,
requires improvements in the efficiency and sustainability of animal production systems. In …

We compared the genomes of multiple domestic chicken breeds with red and white earlobes
to identify the differentiated regions between groups of breeds differing in earlobe color. This …

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 …

Background Although multiple chicken genomes have been assembled and annotated, the
numbers of protein-coding genes in chicken genomes and their variation among breeds are …