The Rose-comb mutation in chickens constitutes a structural rearrangement causing both altered comb morphology and defective sperm motility.

The Rose-comb mutation in chickens constitutes a structural rearrangement causing both altered comb morphology and defective sperm motility.

Rose-comb, a classical monogenic trait of chickens, is characterized by a drastically altered comb morphology compared to the single-combed wild-type. Here we show that Rose-comb is caused by a 7.4 Mb inversion on chromosome 7 and that a second Rose-comb allele arose by unequal crossing over between...

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Main Authors: Freyja Imsland, Chungang Feng, Henrik Boije, Bertrand Bed'hom, Valérie Fillon, Ben Dorshorst, Carl-Johan Rubin, Ranran Liu, Yu Gao, Xiaorong Gu, Yanqiang Wang, David Gourichon, Michael C Zody, William Zecchin, Agathe Vieaud, Michèle Tixier-Boichard, Xiaoxiang Hu, Finn Hallböök, Ning Li, Leif Andersson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-06-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3386170?pdf=render

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