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Genetic Mapping and Biochemical Basis of Yellow Feather Pigmentation in Budgerigars.

Cell - 5 Oct 2017

Cooke Thomas F, Fischer Curt R, Wu Ping, Jiang Ting-Xin, Xie Kathleen T, Kuo James, Doctorov Elizabeth, Zehnder Ashley, Khosla Chaitan, Chuong Cheng-Ming, Bustamante Carlos D

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Parrot feathers contain red, orange, and yellow polyene pigments called psittacofulvins. Budgerigars are parrots that have been extensively bred for plumage traits during the last century, but the underlying genes are unknown. Here we use genome-wide association mapping and gene-expression analysis to map the Mendelian blue locus, which abolishes yellow pigmentation in the budgerigar. We find that the blue trait...

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PMID: 28985565
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.08.016
PMCID: PMC5951300

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