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Hen-feathering mutation HF*H may act as a eumelanising factor and modify the expression of autosomal barring.
British poultry science - 1 Jul 2002
Carefoot W C
Abstract excerpt
1. An investigation was conducted amongst the progeny from a mating between a Hen-feathered Silver Spangled Hamburgh bantam male and a normal feathered Silver Fayoumi bantam female into the genotype of the plumage pattern of the latter. 2. Both breeds possess the marbled chickdown phenotype which has been shown to depend upon homozygosity of three genes: the birchen allele E*R at the extension locus, the dark...
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