OMIA:001731-9031 : Tail feathers, number of in Gallus gallus (chicken) |
In other species: rock pigeon , California condor
Categories: Integument (skin) phene
Mendelian trait/disorder: unknown
Disease-related: no
History: Williams (1979) was the first to report some (bantam) chickens having eight rather than six tail feathers.
Inheritance: Williams (1979) postulated single-locus autosomal recessive inheritance, but with incomplete penetrance and variable expressivity. This evidence suggests that this trait is actually multifactorial. Somes (1990) lists this as a single-locus trait, with the symbol "ext".
Cite this entry
Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2017). OMIA:001731-9031: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) [dataset]. https://omia.org/. https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70
References
Note: the references are listed in reverse chronological order (from the most recent year to the earliest year), and alphabetically by first author within a year.
| 1990 | Somes, R.G. Jr : |
| Mutations and major variants of plumage and skin in chickens. In "Poultry Breeding and Genetics" (ed. R.D. Crawford), Elsevier, Amsterdam; Chapter 6 :169-208, 1990. | |
| 1979 | Williams, R.L. : |
| The eight tail feather trait. American Bantam Association Yearbook :238-244, 1979. |
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