White skin: a Z-linked recessive mutation in the fowl.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a109450

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White skin: a Z-linked recessive mutation in the fowl.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

McGibbon W H

Abstract excerpt

A 6-week-old pullet was noted with white shanks and beak from a strain of SC White Leghorns, pedigree-bred as a closed flock since 1948. Mating of the mutant to males with yellow skin produced only yellow skinned progeny. The F2 progeny consisted of equal numbers of yellow or white shanked pullet...

Topics

Animals
Chickens
Genes, Recessive
Mutation
Skin Pigmentation

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