The lavender plumage colour in Japanese quail is associated with a complex mutation in the region of MLPH that is related to differences in growth, feed consumption and body temperature

BACKGROUND: The lavender phenotype in quail is a dilution of both eumelanin and phaeomelanin in feathers that produces a blue-grey colour on a wild-type feather pattern background. It has been previously demonstrated by intergeneric hybridization that the lavender mutation in quail is homologous to...

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Autores principales: Bed’hom, Bertrand, Vaez, Mohsen, Coville, Jean-Luc, Gourichon, David, Chastel, Olivier, Follett, Sarah, Burke, Terry, Minvielle, Francis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3484014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22937744
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-13-442

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