Jingying Zhao

The paper identifies widespread loss-of-function mutations in chicken genomes during evolution and domestication, showing non-random patterns and selection-driven gene loss.

The paper annotates four high-quality chicken genomes, identifying over 1,400 missing genes in sub-telomeric regions with high G/C content that were previously absent from reference annotations.

This study identifies numerous selective sweeps and genes under artificial selection in indigenous and commercial chickens using re-sequencing and statistical analysis.