OMIA:001731-9031 : Tail feathers, number of in Gallus gallus (chicken)

In other species: rock pigeon , California condor

Categories: Integument (skin) phene

Single-gene 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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