Res: [tied] Re: The cat domestication happened more than 100,000 y

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

> you can read black or white in a scientic article that 'Gallus gallus
> domesticus (chicken: CH)' is a species:

> "Because the sequences of NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 and cytochrome
> b genes had been reported in five species had been reported in five
> species [Phasianus colchicus (ring-neck pheasant: RP), Gallus gallus
> domesticus (chicken: CH), Perdix perdix (grey partridge: GP),
> Bambusicola thoracia (Chinese bamboo partridge: CP), and Aythya
> americana (redhead: RH)],.."

To me it reads as though the article was originally intended to
include the species name 'Gallus domesticus' whch was then corrected
to the *subspecies* name 'Gallus gallus domesticus'. But why didn't
the article give the breed of chicken?

Richard.