Chicken growth is not due to hormones or steroids, but rather advanced breeding and genetics, better nutrition, veterinary ...

The contemporary chicken was most probably developed from its main wild ancestor, the red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus), after its domestication in Southeast Asia in 3,200 BC. Over the years, chicken ...

The world's largest chicken breeder has discovered that a key breed of rooster has a genetic issue that is reducing its fertility, adding to problems constraining U.S. poultry production and raising ...

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 genetic changes underlying the evolution of new species are still poorly understood. For instance, we know little about critical changes that have happened during human evolution. Genetic studies ...