genus Gallus

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genus Gallus - common domestic birds and related forms

Gallus

bird genus - a genus of birds

domestic fowl, fowl, poultry - a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl

gallina, jungle fowl - small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl

family Phasianidae, Phasianidae - pheasants; quails; partridges

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Molecular evidence for hybridization of species in the genus Gallus except for Gallus varius.

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

[3] and found to be a specific trait for genus Gallus gallus gallus.

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

We showed that ALV had colonized the host germ line of red jungle fowl before domestication to become chickens but after divergence of the genus Gallus into distinct species.