The future of molecular genetics in poultry breeding
By G.A.A. Albers, A.P. Rattink and A.L.J. Vereijken, Breeding Research Centre, Euribrid, Nutreco - Effectively, poultry breeding started when the chicken was domesticated thousands of years ago. Through human intervention many different breeds evolved over the centuries, but breeders began to use scientifically based selection methods less than a century ago.