A sexual ornament in chickens is affected by pleiotropic alleles at HAO1 and BMP2, selected during domestication.

A sexual ornament in chickens is affected by pleiotropic alleles at HAO1 and BMP2, selected during domestication.

Domestication is one of the strongest forms of short-term, directional selection. Although selection is typically only exerted on one or a few target traits, domestication can lead to numerous changes in many seemingly unrelated phenotypes. It is unknown whether such correlated responses are due to...

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Main Authors: Martin Johnsson, Ida Gustafson, Carl-Johan Rubin, Anna-Stina Sahlqvist, Kenneth B Jonsson, Susanne Kerje, Olov Ekwall, Olle Kämpe, Leif Andersson, Per Jensen, Dominic Wright
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1002914&type=printable

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