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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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Autores principales: Ma, Shengchao, Liu, Hehe, Wang, Jianmei, Wang, Lei, Xi, Yang, Liu, Yisi, Xu, Qian, Hu, Jiwei, Han, Chunchun, Bai, Lili, Li, Liang, Wang, Jiwen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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