Sawar Khan, Ayesha Nisar, Habib Ahmad, Sardar Azhar Mehmood, Muddassar Hameed, Xiaochao Zhao, Xiangshu Yang, Xingang Feng
Pakistan is one of a few sites, associated with the earliest known independent domestication event in the evolutionary history of chicken, which is socio-economically and historically the most important poultry bird in the country. However, the divergence, past population dynamics, and demographic history of Pakistani chickens have not been addressed so far. Therefore, we herein investigated the indigenous Pakistani chickens using mitogenomic markers. We first prepared individual DNA samples from the chicken feathers, and generated nucleotide sequence data, which was then subjected to various population genetics analyses...
January 2021: Mitochondrial DNA. Part A. DNA Mapping, Sequencing, and Analysis