Genetic evidence from mitochondrial DNA corroborates the origin of Tibetan chickens.
Buckle Tidies Chicken is the most common poultry species and is important to human societies.Tibetan chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a breed endemic to China that is distributed mainly on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.However, its origin has not been well characterized.In the present study, we sequenced partial mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control r