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The role of local adaptation in sustainable production of village chickens (2018)
Journal Article

Village chickens are ubiquitous in smallholder farming systems, contributing to household, local and national economies under diverse environmental, economic and cultural settings. However, they are raised in challenging environments where productivi... Read More about The role of local adaptation in sustainable production of village chickens.

Whole-Genome Resequencing of Red Junglefowl and Indigenous Village Chicken Reveal New Insights on the Genome Dynamics of the Species (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Lawal, Al-Atiyat, Aljumaah, Silva, Mwacharo and Hanotte. The red junglefowl Gallus gallus is the main progenitor of domestic chicken, the commonest livestock species, outnumbering humans by an approximate ratio of six to one. The genetic contr... Read More about Whole-Genome Resequencing of Red Junglefowl and Indigenous Village Chicken Reveal New Insights on the Genome Dynamics of the Species.

The genome landscape of indigenous African cattle (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Author(s). Background: The history of African indigenous cattle and their adaptation to environmental and human selection pressure is at the root of their remarkable diversity. Characterization of this diversity is an essential step toward... Read More about The genome landscape of indigenous African cattle.

Ancient and modern DNA reveal dynamics of domestication and cross-continental dispersal of the dromedary (2016)
Journal Article

Dromedaries have been fundamental to the development of human societies in arid landscapes and for long-distance trade across hostile hot terrains for 3,000 y. Today they continue to be an important livestock resource in marginal agro-ecological zone... Read More about Ancient and modern DNA reveal dynamics of domestication and cross-continental dispersal of the dromedary.

Genome-wide analysis reveals the extent of EAV-HP integration in domestic chicken (2015)
Journal Article

Background: EAV-HP is an ancient retrovirus pre-dating Gallus speciation, which continues to circulate in modern chicken populations, and led to the emergence of avian leukosis virus subgroup J causing significant economic losses to the poultry indus... Read More about Genome-wide analysis reveals the extent of EAV-HP integration in domestic chicken.

Signatures of positive selection in East African Shorthorn Zebu: A genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism analysis (2015)
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Questioning new answers regarding Holocene chicken domestication in China (2015)
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Co-infections determine patterns of mortality in a population exposed to parasite infection (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 The Authors, some rights reserved. Many individual hosts are infected with multiple parasite species, and this may increase or decrease the pathogenicity of the infections. This phenomenon is termed heterologous reactivity and is potentially a... Read More about Co-infections determine patterns of mortality in a population exposed to parasite infection.

Endogenous retrovirus EAV-HP linked to blue egg phenotype in Mapuche fowl (2013)
Journal Article

© 2013 Wragg et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are cred... Read More about Endogenous retrovirus EAV-HP linked to blue egg phenotype in Mapuche fowl.