By Susan Milius
An international research team this week unveiled a draft of the first bird genome to be sequenced. It comes from a vintage chicken.
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The red junglefowl, native to Southeast Asia, belongs to the same species as the world’s domesticated chicken flocks, explains Richard Wilson of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The junglefowl, however, represents the ancestral lineage.