During the last ten years, the use of molecular markers, revealing polymorphism at the DNA
level, has been playing an increasing part in animal genetics studies. Amongst others, the …

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 …

We present here a draft genome sequence of the red jungle fowl, Gallus gallus. Because the
chicken is a modern descendant of the dinosaurs and the first non-mammalian amniote to …

The human X chromosome has a unique biology that was shaped by its evolution as the sex
chromosome shared by males and females. We have determined 99.3% of the euchromatic …

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 demonstrate that the nuclear topological arrangement of chromosome territories (CTs)
has been conserved during primate evolution over a period of about 30 million years …

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 origin of avian microchromosomes has long been the subject of much speculation and
debate. Microchromosomes are a universal characteristic of all avian species and many …

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 …

The peculiar cytology and unique evolution of sex chromosomes raise many fundamental
questions. Why and how sex chromosomes evolved has been debated over a century since …