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The lavender plumage colour in Japanese quail is associated with a complex mutation in the region of MLPH that is related to differences in growth, feed consumption and body temperature.
BMC genomics - 31 Aug 2012
Bed'hom Bertrand, Vaez Mohsen, Coville Jean-Luc, Gourichon David, Chastel Olivier, Follett Sarah, Burke Terry, Minvielle Francis
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The lavender phenotype in quail is a dilution of both eumelanin and phaeomelanin in feathers that produces a blue-grey colour on a wild-type feather pattern background. It has been previously demonstrated by intergeneric hybridization that the lavender mutation in quail is homologous to the same phenotype in chicken, which is caused by a single base-pair change in exon 1 of MLPH. RESULTS: In this...
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