Domesticated plants and animals played crucial roles as models for evolutionary change by
means of natural selection and for establishing the rules of inheritance, originally proposed …

Ever since the integration of Mendelian genetics into evolutionary biology in the early 20th
century, evolutionary geneticists have for the most part treated genes and mutations as …

Domestication and breeding have reshaped the genomic architecture of chicken, but the
retention and loss of genomic elements during these evolutionary processes remain …

Domestic animals are excellent models for genetic studies of phenotypic evolution,,. They
have evolved genetic adaptations to a new environment, the farm, and have been subjected …

Yellow skin is an abundant phenotype among domestic chickens and is caused by a
recessive allele (W* Y) that allows deposition of yellow carotenoids in the skin. Here we …

We describe a genetic variation map for the chicken genome containing 2.8 million single-
nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). This map is based on a comparison of the sequences of …

In this review, we assess the current state of knowledge on domestication of the major
livestock species. We present first some historical background on location and dates of …

The resolution of the chicken consensus linkage map has been dramatically improved in this
study by genoty** 12,945 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on three existing …

Abstract Dominant white, Dun, and Smoky are alleles at the Dominant white locus, which is
one of the major loci affecting plumage color in the domestic chicken. Both Dominant white …

The co‐segregation of plumage colour and sequence polymorphism in the melanocortin 1‐
receptor gene (MC1R) was investigated using an intercross between the red junglefowl and …