A new study has revealed that red junglefowl, the wild ancestors of chickens, are losing their genetic diversity as they mate with their domesticated counterparts. When you purchase through links on ...

Red junglefowl, ancestors of wild chickens, are known to mix with domestic birds. Wu et al., 2023. CC BY-SA 4.0 Farmyards and backyards across Asia are filled to the brim with clucking, strutting ...

Chickens are polluting the genomes of their undomesticated relatives — and this mixing seems to have speeded up 1. Humans domesticated chickens from populations of wild red junglefowl (Gallus gallus) ...

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 ...

An international research team this week unveiled a draft of the first bird genome to be sequenced. It comes from a vintage chicken. The red junglefowl, native to Southeast Asia, belongs to the same ...

In sexual selection, honest signals are maintained by a variety of mechanisms. In red junglefowl (Gallus gallus), health, condition and social status affect comb size, a well-documented predictor of ...

The present study was performed to examine why female Burmese red junglefowl (Gallus gallus spadiceus) approach a food-calling male. Females from three small groups were tested individually with 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. The red junglefowl -- the wild ancestor of ...