Sutphin, Michael D.2015-10-292015-10-292010-05-03http://hdl.handle.net/10919/63065A Virginia Tech animal scientist, who in 1957 began breeding lines of White Plymouth Rock chickens based on their juvenile body weight, has provided scientists around the world with a model for exploring the molecular basis of traits like growth and reproduction - traits that molded the red jungle fowl into a farm animal roughly 8,000 years ago.In CopyrightCollege of Agriculture and Life SciencesPress releaseVirginia Tech. University Relations