Article
Heritable susceptibility to environmentally induced glaucoma in several mutants of Japanese quail.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Lauber J K, Cheng K M
Abstract excerpt
We compared albino (aI), dilute (aID), and wild-type (AI+) quail in their ocular responses to continuous light, the rearing condition that brings on light-induced avian glaucoma (LIAG) in domestic chickens. At age 3 months, all quail kept under 24L/OD showed the retarded corneal growth and cornea...
Topics
- Animals
- Coturnix
- Disease Susceptibility
- Eye Diseases
- Glaucoma
- Lighting
- Mutation
- Poultry Diseases
- Quail
- Syndrome
