caa a22 4500 388051914 CHVBK 20180307125055.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0959270900002148 doi S0959270900002148 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0959270900002148 Genetic endangerment of wild Red Junglefowl Gallus gallus? [Elektronische Daten] Domestic chickens were derived from the wild Red Junglefowl Gallus gallus. A survey of 745 museum specimens of Red Junglefowl suggests that most wild populations have been contaminated genetically by introgression of genes from domestic or feral chickens. A male eclipse plumage, which appears to be an indicator of pure wild genotypes, was found in populations in the western and central portions of the species's range, but not in the easternmost populations. Eclipse plumages probably disappeared from extreme south-eastern Asia and the Philippines prior to the advent of intensive scientific collecting (about 1860) and have not been observed in Malaysia and neighbouring countries since the 1920S. Populations exhibiting eclipse plumages were found in north-eastern India as late as the 1960s, but the dense human populations there make their continuing genetic integrity uncertain. These data suggest that surveys of wild and captive populations should be undertaken to assess the genetic integrity of this species. A re-evaluation of the conservation status of Red Junglefowl might then follow. Copyright © Birdlife International 1998 Peterson A. Townsend Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, U.S.A. Brisbin I. Lehr Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, P.O. Drawer E, Aiken, South Carolina 29802, U.S.A. Bird Conservation International Cambridge University Press 8/4(1998-12), 387-394 0959-2709 8:4<387 1998 8 BCI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270900002148 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270900002148 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Peterson A. Townsend Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, U.S.A NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brisbin I. Lehr Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, P.O. Drawer E, Aiken, South Carolina 29802, U.S.A NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Bird Conservation International Cambridge University Press 8/4(1998-12), 387-394 0959-2709 8:4<387 1998 8 BCI CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge