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Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Genes Associated With Sexual Dichromatism of Head Feather Color in Mallard
Sexual dimorphism of feather color is typical in mallards, in which drakes exhibit green head feathers, while females show dull head feather color. We showed that more melanosomes deposited in the males’ head’s feather barbules than females and further form a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice, which...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8692775/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34956302 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2021.627974 |