Chocolate: a sex-linked recessive plumage colour mutant of the domestic fowl.

doi:10.1080/00071669608417915

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Chocolate: a sex-linked recessive plumage colour mutant of the domestic fowl.

British poultry science - 1 Sept 1996

Carefoot W C

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1. A mating between Black Orpington bantams produced, in addition to blacks, a single female in which the black colouration was replaced by dark chocolate. 2. A mating of the chocolate-coloured female with a black male, F2 and backcross matings demonstrated that the chocolate phenotype is caused...

Topics

Animals
Breeding
Feathers
Female
Genes, Recessive
Genetic Linkage
Male
Mutation
Phenotype
Pigmentation
Poultry
Sex Chromosomes

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