Pearl millet is an important cereal crop worldwide and shows superior heat tolerance. Here,
we developed a graph-based pan-genome by assembling ten chromosomal genomes with …

Despite the substantial role that chickens have played in human societies across the world,
both the geographic and temporal origins of their domestication remain controversial. To …

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 …

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 …

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 Species domestication is generally characterized by the exploitation of high-
impact mutations through processes that involve complex shifting demographics of …

The Thoroughbred horse is a highly valued domestic animal population under strong
selection for athletic phenotypes. Here we present a high resolution genomics-based …

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 red junglefowl, the wild outgroup of domestic chickens, has historically
served as a reference for genomic studies of domestic chickens. These studies have …

Background Silkie is a traditional Chinese chicken breed characterized by its unique
combination of specialized morphological traits. While previous studies have focused on the …