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A rapid, polymerase chain reaction-based procedure for identifying mutant restricted ovulator chickens.
Poultry science - 1 Sept 1996
Bujo H, Elkin R G, Lindstedt K A, Nimpf J, Bitgood J J, Schneider W J
Abstract excerpt
Females of the restricted ovulator (RO) strain of White Leghorn chickens fail to lay eggs upon photostimulation and exhibit endogenous hyperlipidemia and atherosclerotic lesions. A mutation in the gene specifying the oocyte vitellogenesis receptor (OVR), a 95-kDa membrane protein that normally mediates the massive uptake of yolk precursors from the serum, is responsible for this abnormal phenotype. Because a...
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