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Light down--dominant plumage color mutation with homozygous lethality in Japanese quail.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Ito S, Tsudzuki M
Abstract excerpt
A new plumage color mutation in Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) was named light down (LD) from its external appearance at hatching; it was expressed as an incompletely dominant autosomal gene, for which the symbol L is proposed. In the heterozygous neonates, black stripes on the head and back were narrow and yellowish stripes were wide, creating a lighter external appearance than that of the wild type....
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