Rose comb: an example of operational over-dominance in the domestic fowl
- 1 November 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Genetics Research
- Vol. 5 (3) , 379-383
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016672300034820
Abstract
The pleiotropic effect of the rose-comb gene (R) on fertility when combined with artificial selection against the single-comb type (r) results in an interesting example of operational over-dominance. An evaluation of the equilibrium frequency of the rose-comb gene based on this over-dominance concept provides a plausible explanation for the relatively high frequency of single-comb birds appearing in the Wyandotte breed of fowls.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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