Abstract:In 1971, under the supervision of Kh. F. Kushner, Irina defended her thesis for the degree of Candidate of Biological Sciences on 'Phenotypic and genotypic variability of the egg quality traits in chickens'. Afterwards, Irina worked in the Laboratory of Comparative Genetics at the Institute of General Genetics, where she led research on the genetics of domestic fowl and their primary wild ancestor Gallus gallus. Over the 60 years of her career, she published more than 150 articles on the origin, evolution, dis… Show more
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