Bobber: a cervical ataxic mutant in the domestic turkey responsive to sunlight.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a110484

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Bobber: a cervical ataxic mutant in the domestic turkey responsive to sunlight.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Harper J A, Bernier P E, Savage T F, West D J

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Bobber is a genetic disorder in the domestic turkey that is usually expressed between two and four weeks of age. The condition is permanent and is characterized by ventrocaudad bending of the neck accompanied by a lateral pendulumlike motion of the head between the legs. Expressivity of the defect is variable and may be exhibited in some turkeys as a stargazing posture or a rapid clockwise twirling motion. When...

Topics

Animals
Ataxia
Breeding
Female
Gene Expression Regulation
Genes, Recessive
Genetic Linkage
Heliotherapy
Male
Mutation
Neck
Otolithic Membrane

Phototherapy

Poultry Diseases

Sex Chromosomes

Turkeys

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