A new study has revealed that red junglefowl, the wild ancestors of chickens, are losing their genetic diversity as they mate with their domesticated counterparts. When you purchase through links on ...

Red junglefowl, ancestors of wild chickens, are known to mix with domestic birds. Wu et al., 2023. CC BY-SA 4.0 Farmyards and backyards across Asia are filled to the brim with clucking, strutting ...

Chickens are polluting the genomes of their undomesticated relatives — and this mixing seems to have speeded up 1. Humans domesticated chickens from populations of wild red junglefowl (Gallus gallus) ...

The red junglefowl – the wild ancestor of the chicken – is losing its genetic diversity by interbreeding with domesticated birds, according to a new study led by Frank Rheindt of the National ...

An international research team this week unveiled a draft of the first bird genome to be sequenced. It comes from a vintage chicken. The red junglefowl, native to Southeast Asia, belongs to the same ...

Some of the genetic differences that have arisen between domesticated chickens and their wild ancestors, the red junglefowl, are linked to epigenetic changes, according to a new study. Scientists have ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract As part of the US government’s Foreign Game Investigation Program (FGIP), there was an extensive and sustained effort in the 1960s to ...

The red junglefowl -- the wild ancestor of the chicken -- is losing its genetic diversity by interbreeding with domesticated birds, according to a new study. The red junglefowl -- the wild ancestor of ...