Article
A new recessive ametapodia mutation in the chicken (Gallus domesticus).
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Smyth J R, Sreekumar G P, Coyle C A, Bitgood J J
Abstract excerpt
An apparently new mutation that is associated with abnormal limb development appeared in a strain of Light Brown Leghorn chickens. Mutants are characterized by the complete absence of the tarsometatarsals, while severely hypoplastic development of the metacarpals is also present. The phenotype of the new mutant (ametapodia-2) closely resembles ametapodia-1, described in 1967, but ametapodia-2 is inherited as an...
Topics
- Animals
- Bone and Bones
- Chickens
- Genes, Recessive
- Limb Deformities, Congenital
- Mutation
- Poultry Diseases