Poltava (chicken)
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Ukraine
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dual-purpose breed of chicken
Chicken
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named after the Ukrainian city of Poltava
Poltava
Poltava is a city in located on the Vorskla River in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Poltava Oblast , as well as the surrounding Poltava Raion of the oblast. Poltava's estimated population is 298,652 ....
. It includes three color varieties: Clay, Cuckoo, and Black.
Breed and variety names
- Ukrainian Names: полтавська (глиняста, зозуляста, чорна)
- English Names: Poltava (Clay, Cuckoo, Black)
- Russian Names: полтавская (глинистая, зозулястая, черная)
Genetic analysis
The Poltava Clay variety was included in the studies of genetic diversity and relationships between various chicken breeds:- Moiseyeva et al. (1994)
- Nikiforov et al. (1998)
- Romanov and Weigend (2001)
- Semyenova et al. (2002)
- Moiseyeva et al. (2003)
- Hillel et al. (2003)
The latter study was done in 1998—2000 within the framework of an international research project entitled «Development of Strategy and Application of Molecular Tools to Assess Biodiversity in Chicken Genetic Resources», or shortly AVIANDIV, that was sponsored by European Commission
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and co-ordinated by Dr. Steffen Weigend, of the Institute for Animal Breeding, Mariensee
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, Germany
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The AVIANDIV project employed anonymous genetic marker
Genetic marker
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s, so called microsatellite loci
Locus (genetics)
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spread across the whole genome
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. It was shown that 33 populations had no unique allele
Allele
An allele is one of two or more forms of a gene or a genetic locus . "Allel" is an abbreviation of allelomorph. Sometimes, different alleles can result in different observable phenotypic traits, such as different pigmentation...
s, and 14 populations had one unique allele.
External links
- Detailed breed information: Moiseyeva et al. (2006) (in Russian)
- Poltava Clay description: EFABIS; Agriculture Encyclopedia (in Russian)
- Poltava Clay line description:
- Poltava Clay performance: VNITIP.ru