(Groenen; Schmid). On the other feathers, the whole pigmentation is diluted and the
wheathand, over microsatellite markers and a number of straw colored shaft streak is …

Passeriformes are the largest order of birds and one of the most widely studied groups in
evolutionary biology and ecology. Until recently genomic tools in passerines relied on …

Data from completely sequenced genomes are likely to open the way for novel studies of the
genetics of nonmodel organisms, in particular when it comes to the identification and …

The ability to generate transgenic mice has been a powerful tool in studying functional
genomics, and much of our knowledge about developmental biology has come from the …

A large F2 cross with 920 Japanese quail was used to map QTL for phosphorus utilization,
calcium utilization, feed per gain and body weight gain. In addition, four bone ash traits were …

Using standard phylogenetic methods, it can be hard to resolve the order in which
speciation events took place when new lineages evolved in the distant past and within a …

Background Behavioral traits such as sociability, emotional reactivity and aggressiveness
are major factors in animal adaptation to breeding conditions. In order to investigate the …

In order to develop a comparative map between chicken and quail, we identified
orthologous gene markers based on chicken genomic sequences and localized them on the …

Conspicuous phenotypic differences sometimes coexist with shallow genome-wide
divergence between taxa. Along with genomically localized selection and extensive gene …

Amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLP) are dominant markers frequently used to
build linkage maps where heterozygosity could be inferred by a backcross breeding …