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SUBMITTER: Wu S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10942973 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wu Siwen S Wang Kun K Dou Tengfei T Yuan Sisi S Yan Shixiong S Xu Zhiqiang Z Liu Yong Y Jian Zonghui Z Zhao Jingying J Zhao Rouhan R Zi Xiannian X Gu Dahai D Liu Lixian L Li Qihua Q Wu Dong-Dong DD Jia Junjing J Su Zhengchang Z Ge Changrong C
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Many lines of evidence indicate that red jungle fowl (RJF) is the primary ancestor of domestic chickens. Although multiple versions of RJF (galgal2-galgal5 and GRCg6a) and commercial chickens (GRCg7b/w and Huxu) genomes have been assembled since 2004, no high-quality indigenous chicken genomes have been assembled, hampering the understanding of chicken domestication and evolution. To fill the gap, we sequenced the genomes of four indigenous chickens with distinct morphological traits in southwes ...[more]