TY - JOUR AU - Malomane, Dorcus Kholofelo AU - Simianer, Henner AU - Weigend, Annett AU - Reimer, Christian AU - Schmitt, Armin Otto AU - Weigend, Steffen PY - 2019 DA - 2019/05/07 TI - The SYNBREED chicken diversity panel: a global resource to assess chicken diversity at high genomic resolution JO - BMC Genomics SP - 345 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - Since domestication, chickens did not only disperse into the different parts of the world but they have also undergone significant genomic changes in this process. Many breeds, strains or lines have been formed and those represent the diversity of the species. However, other than the natural evolutionary forces, management practices (including those that threaten the persistence of genetic diversity) following domestication have shaped the genetic make-up of and diversity between today’s chicken breeds. As part of the SYNBREED project, samples from a wide variety of chicken populations have been collected across the globe and were genotyped with a high density SNP array. The panel consists of the wild type, commercial layers and broilers, indigenous village/local type and fancy chicken breeds. The SYNBREED chicken diversity panel (SCDP) is made available to serve as a public basis to study the genetic structure of chicken diversity. In the current study we analyzed the genetic diversity between and within the populations in the SCDP, which is important for making informed decisions for effective management of farm animal genetic resources. SN - 1471-2164 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-5727-9 DO - 10.1186/s12864-019-5727-9 ID - Malomane2019 ER -