Domestication of livestock species and a long history of migrations, selection and adaptation
have created an enormous variety of breeds. Conservation of these genetic resources relies …

Viral infections impose a great threat to backyard chicken production among poor rural
households in developing countries. These infections limit the contribution of chicken …

Background Since domestication, chickens did not only disperse into the different parts of
the world but they have also undergone significant genomic changes in this process. Many …

Abstract The Indian Ocean has long been a forum for contact, trade and the transfer of
goods, technologies and ideas between geographically distant groups of people. Another …

A breeding program has been established in 2008 to improve productivity of Horro chicken,
an indigenous population in the western highlands of Ethiopia. The pedigree descended …

Abstract Structure_threader is a program to parallelize multiple runs of genetic clustering
software that does not make use of multithreading technology (structure, fastStructure and …

Chicken were possibly domesticated in South and Southeast Asia. They occur ubiquitously
in East Africa where they show extensive phenotypic diversity. They appeared in the region …

This study sought to assess mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diversity and phylogeographic
structure of chickens from five agro‐ecological zones of Zimbabwe. Furthermore, chickens …

This study aimed at investigating the genetic diversity, relationship and population structure
of 110 local Swedish chickens derived from five breeds (Gotlandshöna, Hedemorahöna …

Genetic diversity and population structure of 113 chicken populations from Africa, Asia and
Europe were studied using 29 microsatellite markers. Among these, three populations of …