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Inheritance of plumage colour variations in a large flock of Japanese quail.
British poultry science - 1 Dec 2011
Mishra S K, Khan A A, Narayan Raj, Singh S P, Pratap S O, Saxena D, Chaudhuri D
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1. The inheritance of various plumage colour variants and their underlying interactions were investigated in a large flock of Japanese quail maintained at CARI (India) by conducting reciprocal crosses between four breeding stocks inheriting Pharaoh, White Breasted, White and Brown plumages, followed by test crosses. 2. Based on the proportion of plumage-colour types in the progeny, putative genotypes were...
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