The wild species genome ancestry of domestic chickens
R. A. Lawal, S. H. Martin, K. Vanmechelen, A. Vereijken, P. Silva, R. M. Al-Atiyat, R. S. Aljumaah, J. M. Mwacharo, D.-D. Wu, Y.-P. Zhang, P. M. Hocking, J. Smith, D. Wragg, O. Hanotte
The paper analyzes genome-wide introgression in domestic chickens, revealing bidirectional hybridization with Grey junglefowl and limited introgression with Ceylon and Green junglefowl.
bioRxiv · Jul 31, 2019Evolutionary Biology