Inheritance of the plumage pattern of the double‐laced Barnevelder bantam

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Abstract
1. An investigation was conducted among the progeny from crosses between Gold‐Laced Wyandotte and Double‐Laced Barnevelder bantams into the genotype of the plumage pattern of the latter. 2. The double‐laced phenotype has been shown to depend upon homozygosity of the linkage of a eumelanin intensifier melanotic Ml with a pattern gene Pg in the presence of either wheaten eWh or brown eb alleles at the E‐locus. 3. Examination of the female F2 generation demonstrated that the plumage pattern phenotype of the Double‐Laced Barnevelder depended upon homozygosity of eb(Ml‐Pg).