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Wild-type and mottled plumage phenotypes with two different extended black (E) backgrounds in Cochin bantam (CB) and Ehime-jidori (EJ).

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posted on 2014-01-23, 04:26 authored by Keiji Kinoshita, Toyoko Akiyama, Makoto Mizutani, Ai Shinomiya, Akira Ishikawa, Hassan Hassan Younis, Masaoki Tsudzuki, Takao Namikawa, Yoichi Matsuda

(A) The wild-type (Mo^+/−) (A-1) and mottled plumage (mo/mo) (A-2) in adult CB females with an E/E genetic background. (B) The wild-type (Mo^+/−) (B-1) and mottled plumage (mo/mo) (B-2) in adult EJ females with an e⁺/e⁺ genetic background. (C-1) Feathers of the saddle from the wild-type CB female (Mo^+/−) (left) and the mottled CB female (mo/mo) (right). (C-2) Feathers of the saddle from the wild-type EJ female (Mo^+/−) (left) and the mottled EJ female (mo/mo) (right). (D) Down colour of newly hatched chicks of the wild type (Mo^+/−) (D-1, left) and the mottled type (mo/mo) (D-1, right) in CB, and the wild type (Mo^+/−) (D-2, left) and the mottled type (mo/mo) in EJ (D-2, right). These mottled-type chicks (mo/mo) have white yellowish down with pigmented spots on the head.