Fawn-2: A dominant plumage color mutation in Japanese quail

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 248-252

  Tsudzuki, M ^a   Ito, S ^b   Sato, K ^c   Takahashi, S ^d   Uchida, H ^e  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^e Tokai kigyo Co   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALLELISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; DOMINANT GENE; FEATHER; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEGREGATION; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MATING; MUTATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; QUAIL;

ANIMALIA; COTURNIX JAPONICA; JAPONICA; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 0029975754     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a022996     Document Type: Article

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