Editing Turkey (bird) (section)

===Fossil species===
* ''Meleagris'' sp. (Early Pliocene of [[Bone Valley]], U.S.)
<!-- * ''Meleagris leopoldi'' (Late Pliocene of Cita Canyon, U.S.){{snd}}formerly ''Agriocharis''
* ''Meleagris progenes'' (Rexroad Late Pliocene, Meade County, U.S.){{snd}}formerly ''Agriocharis'' [probably synonyms of extant gallopavo] -->
* ''Meleagris'' sp. (Late Pliocene of Macasphalt Shell Pit, U.S.)
<!-- * ''Meleagris anza'' (Early Pleistocene of San Diego County, U.S.) [probably synonyms of extant gallopavo] -->
* ''[[Meleagris californica]]'' (Late Pleistocene of southwestern U.S.){{snd}}formerly ''Parapavo/Pavo''<!-- Auk62:596; Condor32:81; Condor38:249; Condor44:283 -->
* ''Meleagris crassipes'' (Late Pleistocene of southwestern North America)<!-- Condor42:154; Condor96:577; RevMexCiencGeol20:79 -->

Turkeys have been considered by many authorities to be their own family—the Meleagrididae—but a recent genomic analysis of a [[retrotransposon marker]] groups turkeys in the family [[Phasianidae]].<ref name=Jan>{{cite journal| last1 = Jan| first1 = K.| last2 = Andreas| first2 = M.| last3 = Gennady| first3 = C.| last4 = Andrej| first4 = K.| last5 = Gerald| first5 = M.| last6 = Jürgen| first6 = B.| last7 = Jürgen| first7 = S.| year = 2007| title = Waves of genomic hitchhikers shed light on the evolution of gamebirds (Aves: Galliformes)| journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology| doi = 10.1186/1471-2148-7-190| volume = 7| issue = 1| page = 190| pmid = 17925025| pmc = 2169234| df = dmy-all| doi-access = free| bibcode = 2007BMCEE...7..190K}}</ref> In 2010, a team of scientists published a draft sequence of the domestic turkey (''Meleagris gallopavo'') genome.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Dalloul | first1 = R. A. | last2 = Long | first2 = J. A. | last3 = Zimin | first3 = A. V. | last4 = Aslam | first4 = L. | last5 = Beal | first5 = K. | last6 = Blomberg Le | first6 = L. | last7 = Bouffard | first7 = P. | last8 = Burt | first8 = D. W. | last9 = Crasta | first9 = O. | last10 = Crooijmans | first10 = R. P. | last11 = Cooper | first11 = K. | last12 = Coulombe | first12 = R. A. | last13 = De | first13 = S. | last14 = Delany | first14 = M. E. | last15 = Dodgson | first15 = J. B. | last16 = Dong | first16 = J. J. | last17 = Evans | first17 = C. | last18 = Frederickson | first18 = K. M. | last19 = Flicek | first19 = P. | last20 = Florea | first20 = L. | last21 = Folkerts | first21 = O. | last22 = Groenen | first22 = M. A. | last23 = Harkins | first23 = T. T. | last24 = Herrero | first24 = J. | last25 = Hoffmann | first25 = S. | last26 = Megens | first26 = H. J. | last27 = Jiang | first27 = A. | last28 = De Jong | first28 = P. | last29 = Kaiser | first29 = P. | last30 = Kim | first30 = H. | editor1-last = Roberts | editor1-first = Richard J | title = Multi-Platform Next-Generation Sequencing of the Domestic Turkey (''Meleagris gallopavo''): Genome Assembly and Analysis | doi = 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000475 | journal = PLOS Biology | volume = 8 | issue = 9 | pages = e1000475 | year = 2010 | pmid =  20838655| pmc =2935454 | doi-access = free }}</ref> In 2023 a new improved haplotype-resolved domestic turkey genome was published, which confirmed the large inversion on the Z chromosome not found in other [[Galliformes]], and found new structural variations between the parent haplotypes that provides potential new target genes for breeding.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Barros |first1=Carolina P |last2=Derks |first2=Martijn F L |last3=Mohr |first3=Jeff |last4=Wood |first4=Benjamin J |last5=Crooijmans |first5=Richard P M A |last6=Megens |first6=Hendrik-Jan |last7=Bink |first7=Marco C A M |last8=Groenen |first8=Martien A M |title=A new haplotype-resolved turkey genome to enable turkey genetics and genomics research |journal=[[GigaScience]] |date=12 December 2022 |volume=12 |doi=10.1093/gigascience/giad051 |language=en |pmc=10360393 |pmid=37489751}}</ref>