title: Reply to Peters et al.: Further discussions confirm early Holocene chicken domestication in northern China.
authors.affiliation: National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, Ministry of Agricultural Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China;
authors.forename: Hai
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8866-7931
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xiang
authors.affiliation: Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relic, Shijiazhuang 050031, China;
authors.forename: Jianqiang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Xushui County Office for Preservation of Ancient Monuments, Xushui 072550, China;
authors.forename: Baoquan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany; and Department of Biology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom zhxb@cau.edu.cn michi@palaeo.eu.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hofreiter
authors.affiliation: National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, Ministry of Agricultural Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China; zhxb@cau.edu.cn michi@palaeo.eu.
authors.forename: Xingbo
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhao
mesh_terms: D000822:Animal Husbandry / Q000266:history*; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002645:Chickens / Q000235:genetics*; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial