Table 1 The SYNBREED chicken diversity consortium

Olivier Hanotte

Albania

School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Miika Tapio/Mervi Honkatukia

Finland

Luke Natural Resources Institute, Finland

Steffen Weigend

Germany

Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany

Henner Simianer

Germany

Georg-August-Universität, Germany

András Hidas

Hungary

Institute for Small Animal Research, Hungary

Amadeu Francesch

Spain

IRTA-Centre Mas de Bover, Spain

Christine Flury

Switzerland

School of Agricultural Forest and Food Sciences, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Asmaa Abushady

Egypt

Genetics Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

Olivier Hanotte/Takele Desta

Ethiopia

School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Ahmad Ali

Pakistan

Department of Bioscience COMSATS, University Islamabad, Pakistan

Mohyeldein Berima

Sudan

Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zalingei, Sudan

Charles Lyimo

Tanzania

Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania

Farai Muchadeyi

Zimbabwe

Agricultural Research Council-Biotechnology Platform, South Africa

Raed M. Al-Atiyat/Riyadh S. Aljumaah

Saudi Arabia

King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Mohammad Shamsul Alam Bhuiyan

Bangladesh

Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh

Guohong Chen

China

Yangzhou University, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Mehmet Ali Yildiz

Turkey

Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Ankara University, Turkey

Cuc, Ngo Thi Kim

Vietnam

National Institute of Animal Science, Vietnam

Jeremy Austin / Michael Herrera

Pacific/Philippines

School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia

Maria Rosa Lanari

Argentina

National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Argentina

Fernando Mujica

Chile

Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile

Carl Schmidt

Rwanda/Uganda

University of Delaware, Delaware, USA