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Genetic evidence from Indian red jungle fowl corroborates multiple domestication of modern day chicken

BACKGROUND: Domestication of chicken is believed to have occurred in Southeast Asia, especially in Indus valley. However, non-inclusion of Indian red jungle fowl (RJF), Gallus gallus murghi in previous studies has left a big gap in understanding the relationship of this major group of birds. In the...

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Autores principales: Kanginakudru, Sriramana, Metta, Muralidhar, Jakati, RD, Nagaraju, J
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2474866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18544161
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-174
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author Kanginakudru, Sriramana
Metta, Muralidhar
Jakati, RD
Nagaraju, J
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Metta, Muralidhar
Jakati, RD
Nagaraju, J
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description BACKGROUND: Domestication of chicken is believed to have occurred in Southeast Asia, especially in Indus valley. However, non-inclusion of Indian red jungle fowl (RJF), Gallus gallus murghi in previous studies has left a big gap in understanding the relationship of this major group of birds. In the present study, we addressed this issue by analyzing 76 Indian birds that included 56 G. g. murghi (RJF), 16 G. g. domesticus (domestic chicken) and 4 G. sonneratii (Grey JF) using both microsatellite markers and mitochondrial D-loop sequences. We also compared the D-loop sequences of Indian birds with those of 779 birds obtained from GenBank. RESULTS: Microsatellite marker analyses of Indian birds indicated an average F(ST )of 0.126 within G. g. murghi, and 0.154 within G. g. domesticus while it was more than 0.2 between the two groups. The microsatellite-based phylogenetic trees showed a clear separation of G. g. domesticus from G. g. murghi, and G. sonneratii. Mitochondrial DNA based mismatch distribution analyses showed a lower Harpending's raggedness index in both G. g. murghi (0.001515) and in Indian G. g. domesticus (0.0149) birds indicating population expansion. When meta analysis of global populations of 855 birds was carried out using median joining haplotype network, 43 Indian birds of G. g. domesticus (19 haplotypes) were distributed throughout the network sharing haplotypes with the RJFs of different origins. CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that the domestication of chicken has occurred independently in different locations of Asia including India. We found evidence for domestication of Indian birds from G. g. spadiceus and G. g. gallus as well as from G. g. murghi, corroborating multiple domestication of Indian and other domestic chicken. In contrast to the commonly held view that RJF and domestic birds hybridize in nature, the present study shows that G. g. murghi is relatively pure. Further, the study also suggested that the chicken populations have undergone population expansion, especially in the Indus valley.
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spelling pubmed-24748662008-07-19 Genetic evidence from Indian red jungle fowl corroborates multiple domestication of modern day chicken Kanginakudru, Sriramana Metta, Muralidhar Jakati, RD Nagaraju, J BMC Evol Biol Research Article BACKGROUND: Domestication of chicken is believed to have occurred in Southeast Asia, especially in Indus valley. However, non-inclusion of Indian red jungle fowl (RJF), Gallus gallus murghi in previous studies has left a big gap in understanding the relationship of this major group of birds. In the present study, we addressed this issue by analyzing 76 Indian birds that included 56 G. g. murghi (RJF), 16 G. g. domesticus (domestic chicken) and 4 G. sonneratii (Grey JF) using both microsatellite markers and mitochondrial D-loop sequences. We also compared the D-loop sequences of Indian birds with those of 779 birds obtained from GenBank. RESULTS: Microsatellite marker analyses of Indian birds indicated an average F(ST )of 0.126 within G. g. murghi, and 0.154 within G. g. domesticus while it was more than 0.2 between the two groups. The microsatellite-based phylogenetic trees showed a clear separation of G. g. domesticus from G. g. murghi, and G. sonneratii. Mitochondrial DNA based mismatch distribution analyses showed a lower Harpending's raggedness index in both G. g. murghi (0.001515) and in Indian G. g. domesticus (0.0149) birds indicating population expansion. When meta analysis of global populations of 855 birds was carried out using median joining haplotype network, 43 Indian birds of G. g. domesticus (19 haplotypes) were distributed throughout the network sharing haplotypes with the RJFs of different origins. CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that the domestication of chicken has occurred independently in different locations of Asia including India. We found evidence for domestication of Indian birds from G. g. spadiceus and G. g. gallus as well as from G. g. murghi, corroborating multiple domestication of Indian and other domestic chicken. In contrast to the commonly held view that RJF and domestic birds hybridize in nature, the present study shows that G. g. murghi is relatively pure. Further, the study also suggested that the chicken populations have undergone population expansion, especially in the Indus valley. BioMed Central 2008-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC2474866/ /pubmed/18544161 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-174 Text en Copyright ©2008 Kanginakudru et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kanginakudru, Sriramana
Metta, Muralidhar
Jakati, RD
Nagaraju, J
Genetic evidence from Indian red jungle fowl corroborates multiple domestication of modern day chicken
title Genetic evidence from Indian red jungle fowl corroborates multiple domestication of modern day chicken
title_full Genetic evidence from Indian red jungle fowl corroborates multiple domestication of modern day chicken
title_fullStr Genetic evidence from Indian red jungle fowl corroborates multiple domestication of modern day chicken
title_full_unstemmed Genetic evidence from Indian red jungle fowl corroborates multiple domestication of modern day chicken
title_short Genetic evidence from Indian red jungle fowl corroborates multiple domestication of modern day chicken
title_sort genetic evidence from indian red jungle fowl corroborates multiple domestication of modern day chicken
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2474866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18544161
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-174
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