Avoiding missing data biases in phylogenomic inference: an empirical study in the landfowl (Aves: Galliformes)

PA Hosner, BC Faircloth, TC Glenn… - Molecular biology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Production of massive DNA sequence data sets is transforming phylogenetic inference, but
best practices for analyzing such data sets are not well established. One uncertainty is …

Pre‐and post‐natal stress programming: Developmental exposure to glucocorticoids causes long‐term brain‐region specific changes to transcriptome in the precocial …

V Marasco, P Herzyk, J Robinson… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Exposure to stress during early development can permanently influence an individual's
physiology and behaviour, and affect its subsequent health. The extent to which elevated …

Embryonic development and inviability phenotype of chicken-Japanese quail F1 hybrids

S Ishishita, K Kinoshita, M Nakano, Y Matsuda - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Interspecific hybrid incompatibility, including inviability and sterility, is important in
speciation; however, its genetic basis remains largely unknown in vertebrates. Crosses …

Basic characterization of avian β‐defensin genes in the Japanese quail, Coturnix japonica

T Ishige, H Hara, T Hirano, H Mannen… - Animal Science …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we identified a cluster of 14 avian β‐defensins (AvBD; approximately 66 kbp) in
the Japanese quail, Coturnix japonica. Except for AvBD12 (CjAvBD12) and‐13, the …

Avian test battery for the evaluation of developmental abnormalities of neuro-and reproductive systems

T Kawashima, WMS Ahmed, K Nagino… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Most of the currently used toxicity assays for environmental chemicals use acute or chronic
systemic or reproductive toxicity endpoints rather than neurobehavioral endpoints. In …

[PDF][PDF] Database tool The quail anatomy portal

AA Ruparelia, JE Simkin, D Salgado, DF Newgreen… - academia.edu
The Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) has been extensively used in quail–chick
chimera studies to investigate the development of a diverse range of cell types (1). Recently …