Gallus gallus

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Noun	1.	Gallus gallus - a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl chicken domestic fowl, fowl, poultry - a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl chick, biddy - young bird especially of domestic fowl rooster - adult male chicken capon - castrated male chicken biddy, hen - adult female chicken spring chicken - a young chicken having tender meat Rhode Island red - American breed of heavy-bodied brownish-red general-purpose chicken Dominick, Dominique - American breed of chicken having barred grey plumage raised for meat and brown eggs Orpington - English breed of large chickens with white skin chicken, poulet, volaille - the flesh of a chicken used for food
	2.	Gallus gallus - a jungle fowl of southeastern Asia that is considered ancestral to the domestic fowl red jungle fowl gallina, jungle fowl - small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl

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You must have heard of a court case, where Togbui Xornametor's kinsman was standing trial for embezzling a fowl, a gallus gallus domesticus, under unapproved means.

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Seven currently published reference intervals for the Gallus gallus domesticus could not be validated for use in backyard hens, according to the guidelines established by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute.

Biochemical Reference Intervals for Backyard Hens

To ensure the specificity of the assay, meat from Sus scrofa domesticus, Ovis aries, Gallus gallus domesticus and Salmo salar was also added in the same proportions (between 0.01% and 20%).

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Chickens were probably domesticated from the red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus), as early as 5400 BC according to archaeological discoveries in the Indus Valley and in Hebei Province, China (West and Zhou, 1989; Crawford, 1995).

Maternal origin of Turkish and Iranian native chickens inferred from mitochondrial DNA D-loop sequences

Present study was conducted to detect the prevalence of coccidiosis in Broiler chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica)and wild pigeon (Columba livia).

Short Communication - A Comparative Study on Prevalence of Coccidian Parasites in Broiler Chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), Japanese Quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) and Wild Pigeon (Columba livia)

Evolved from the red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus bankiva), the darag is indigenous to the Western Visayas region and is a favorite among locals due to its savory and firm yet distinct meat.

Raising 'darag' chickens from backyards to farms

Two D-loop sequences of Gallus were included, one from wild jungle fowl Gallus gallus gallus and the other from Gallus gallus bankiva GenBank accession (number AB007720 and AB007718), respectively, and seven Clade I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IIId, and IV reference sequences that correspond to different clades determined previously in Asian samples [10] (Table 2).

Molecular characterization of Sudanese and Southern Sudanese chicken breeds using mtDNA D-loop

IDENTIFICATION OF OXYSPIRURA MANSONI (SPIRURIDA: THELAZIIDAE) IN A FREE-RANGE HEN (GALLUS GALLUS DOMESTICUS) AND ITS INTERMEDIATE HOST, SURINAM COCKROACH (PYCNOSCELUS SURINAMENSIS) IN MONTERREY, NUEVO LEON, MEXICO

Identificacion de Oxyspirura mansoni (Spirurida: Thelaziidae) en una gallina de traspatio (Gallus gallus domesticus) y de su huesped intermediario, la cucaracha de Surinam (Pycnoscelus surinamensis), en Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

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