Table 1.
Details, including collection locality and published source, for 3128 chicken mtDNA control region sequences used in this study. (#Mwacharo et al. [31] sequenced additional chicken samples from East Africa (Ethiopia: 43, Sudan: 135, Uganda: 123) but did not make them available on GenBank. See the electronic supplementary material, table S1 for detailed attributes of the 3128 sequences.)
| region | locality | no. samples | references |
|---|---|---|---|
| Africa# | |||
| Madagascar | 79 | [32]b, [33]a | |
| Malawi | 19 | [29] | |
| Zimbabwe | 99 | [29] | |
| Kenya | 159 | [31] | |
| Nigeria | 235 | [34] | |
| Sudan | 20 | [29] | |
| Arabian Peninsula | |||
| Saudi Arabia | 32 | [35] | |
| West Asia | |||
| Iran | 6 | [22], [33]a | |
| Azerbaijan | 5 | [22] | |
| Turkmenistan | 5 | [22] | |
| South Asia | |||
| India | 324 | [22,23,36] | |
| Sri Lanka | 132 | [37] | |
| Bangladesh | 96 | [38] | |
| East Asia and Mainland Southeast Asia | |||
| China | 645 | [39]a, [40]a, [22,23,41,42]a | |
| Burma | 36 | [22,23,43] | |
| Thailand | 34 | [44], [33]a, [45] | |
| Laos | 69 | [33]a, [23,46] | |
| Vietnam | 179 | [33]a, [45], this study | |
| Korea | 31 | [47] | |
| Island Southeast Asia | |||
| Sumatra | 191 | [44], [33]a, [23], this study | |
| Java | 181 | [44], this study | |
| Kalimantan | 46 | this study | |
| Nusa Tenggara | 76 | [33]a, [22,46], this study | |
| Sulawesi | 78 | this study | |
| Maluku | 50 | this study | |
| Irian Jaya, Papua | 26 | this study | |
| Philippines | 261 | [33]a [46], this study | |
| Pacific | |||
| Solomon | 3 | this study | |
| Vanuatu | 9 | this study | |
| Fiji | 2 | this study | |
aSequences submitted only to GenBank without publication.
bSequences not submitted to any database, sequences obtained directly from the authors.