Article
Nucleolar size polymorphisms in commercial layer chickens; determination of incidence, inheritance, and nucleolar sizes.
Poultry science - 1 Aug 1994
Delany M E, Emsley A, Smiley M B, Putnam J R, Bloom S E
Abstract excerpt
In the chicken, one chromosome pair encodes the ribosomal (r)RNA genes and two nucleoli are formed in interphase cells. The nucleolus is the site of rRNA synthesis and ribosome biogenesis. Nucleolar size polymorphisms have been detected in research strains of chickens and found to represent heter...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Nucleolus
- Chickens
- Feathers
- Female
- Incidence
- Male
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Genetic