The SYNBREED chicken diversity panel: a global resource to assess chicken diversity at high genomic resolution.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since domestication, chickens did not only disperse into the different parts of the world but they have also undergone significant genomic changes in this process. Many breeds, strains or lines have been formed and those represent the diversity of the species. However, other than the natural evolutionary forces, management practices (including those that threaten the persistence of genetic diversity) following domestication have shaped the genetic make-up of and diversity between today's chicken breeds. As part of the SYNBREED project, samples from a wide variety of chicken populations have been collected across the globe and were genotyped with a high density SNP array. The panel consists of the wild type, commercial layers and broilers, indigenous village/local type an

SUBMITTER: Malomane DK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6505202 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature