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- Title
Playing chicken with red junglefowl: identifying phenotypic markers of genetic purity in Gallus gallus.
- Authors
Brisbin Jr, I. L.; Peterson, A. T.
- Abstract
We report the results of a novel experiment, in which genetically pure male red junglefowl Gallus gallus (Richardson strain) were deliberately crossed with domestic female chickens to create contaminated lines of known purity, reaching as high as 93.75%. Phenotypic characters generally used as indicators of purity (reduced or absent female comb, male eclipse plumage, etc.) all appeared to at least some extent in domestically contaminated progeny and moreso in successively more pure generations of the experiment, suggesting that such phenotypic characters may have little, if any, utility in characterizing red junglefowl stocks as to their genetic purity.
- Subjects
JUNGLEFOWL; RED junglefowl; ANIMALS; WILDLIFE conservation; PHENOTYPES; GENETICS
- Publication
Animal Conservation, 2007, Vol 10, Issue 4, p429
- ISSN
1367-9430
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1469-1795.2007.00112.x