Chicken is the most numerous among the domesticated livestock species. Across cultures,
religions, and societies, chicken is widely accepted with little or no taboo compared to other …

Biochar is conventionally and widely used for soil amendment or as an adsorbent for water
treatment. Nevertheless, the need for transition to renewable materials has resulted in an …

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 …

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

Domestic sheep and their wild relatives harbor substantial genetic variants that can form the
backbone of molecular breeding, but their genome landscapes remain understudied. Here …

Domestic ducks are raised for meat, eggs and feather down, and almost all varieties are
descended from the Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos). Here, we report chromosome-level high …

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), genotyped with arrays, have become a widely
used marker type in population genetic analyses over the last 10 years. However, compared …

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

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 …

Molecular data have been used to date species divergences ever since they were described
as documents of evolutionary history in the 1960s. Yet, an inadequate fossil record and …