Compared to commercial chickens, local breeds exhibit better in meat quality and flavour,
but the productivity (eg, growth rate, body weight) of local chicken breeds is rather low …

Background The eight phenotypically distinguishable indigenous chicken breeds in Guizhou
province of China are great resources for high-quality development of the poultry industry in …

Many different chicken breeds are found around the world, their features vary among them,
and they are valuable resources. Currently, there is a huge lack of knowledge of the genetic …

Wenchang (WC) chicken, the only indigenous chicken breed listed in Chinese genetic
resources in Hainan province, is well known for its excellent meat quality and is sold all over …

Guangxi chickens play a crucial role in promoting the high-quality development of the broiler
industry in China, but their value and potential are yet to be discovered. To determine the …

The conservation and development of chicken have received considerable attention, but the
admixture history of chicken breeds, especially Chinese indigenous breeds, has been …

One of the most important approaches in animal breeding is identification of structural
variations responsible for economical important traits. Next Generation Sequencing …

Following chicken domestication, diversified chicken breeds were developed by both natural
and artificial selection, which led to the accumulation of abundant genetic and phenotypic …

Introduction Investigating the genetic markers and genomic signatures related to chicken
meat production by combing multi-omics methods could provide new insights into modern …

The purposes of this study were to reveal the genetic evolution of local chicken breeds at the
genomic level and to discover genes with important germplasm characteristics. Restriction …