Article
Some observations on high cavernous nostrils in the chicken.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Somes R G
Abstract excerpt
Wide high cavernous nostrils are characteristic of all chicken breeds of the V-shaped duplex comb type, whereas all other breeds have slit-type nostrils, including the Sicilian Buttercup breed that has the buttercup-type duplex comb. Crosses between the Sicilian Buttercup and La Flèche breeds and single comb breeds suggest that this trait is a pleiotropic effect of the Dv allele at the duplex locus and is...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Chickens
- Comb and Wattles
- Crosses, Genetic
- Genes, Dominant
- Genes, Recessive
- Nose