genus Gallus

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Noun1.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.
Adventitious Viral Genomes in Vaccines but Not in Vaccinees
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