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