Today’s Domestic Turkeys Are Genetically Distinct from Wild Ancestors, Article of the Day

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Today’s Domestic Turkeys Are Genetically Distinct from Wild Ancestors, Article of the Day

Post by lolotsung » Sat Apr 16, 2022 8:23 pm

“Few people know that the commercial turkeys served at Thanksgiving descended from Mexico, where they were discovered during the Spanish Conquest and transported to Europe,”

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/to ... ervation-b

"The turkey genome is much less diverse with a relatively low frequency of heterozygous SNPs as compared to other livestock species like chicken and pig... All commercial lines appear to share a common origin."

https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/t ... 13-391.pdf
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Re: Today’s Domestic Turkeys Are Genetically Distinct from Wild Ancestors, Article of the Day

Post by Killerbunny » Sat Apr 16, 2022 8:46 pm

Thanks - I breed the Beltsville SMall WHites!
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