Given the unknown impacts on jungle fowl and the importance of chickens to humankind, Rheindt and his team wanted to gather more details. Wild jungle fowl contain a store of genetic diversity that ...

The genetic diversity of chicken populations is a cornerstone of agricultural sustainability, evolutionary biology and the understanding of domestication processes. Modern research has revealed a ...

The red junglefowl—the wild ancestor of the chicken—is losing its genetic diversity by interbreeding with domesticated birds, according to a new study led by Frank Rheindt of the National ...