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OMIA:000374-8863 : Feather colour, extended black in Coscoroba coscoroba

In other species: chicken , red-footed booby , black swan , Bananaquit , helmeted guineafowl , gyrfalcon , Lesser snow goose , Arctic skua , Chestnut-bellied monarch , brown booby , zebra finch , ruff , rock pigeon , Eleonora's falcon , pomarine skua , king penguin , Mallard

Categories: Pigmentation phene

Possibly relevant human trait(s) and/or gene(s)s (MIM numbers): 266300 (trait) , 155555 (gene)

Links to MONDO diseases: No links.

Mendelian trait/disorder: unknown

Considered a defect: no

Reference

2008 Pointer, MA., Mundy, NI. :
Testing whether macroevolution follows microevolution: are colour differences among swans (Cygnus) attributable to variation at the MCIR locus? BMC Evol Biol 8:249, 2008. Pubmed reference: 18789136 . DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-249.

Edit History


  • Created by Frank Nicholas on 22 Oct 2008
  • Changed by Frank Nicholas on 12 Oct 2011
  • Changed by Frank Nicholas on 12 Dec 2011
  • Changed by Frank Nicholas on 21 Mar 2012
  • Changed by Frank Nicholas on 25 Apr 2013