A RECESSIVE SLATE PLUMAGE COLOR OF TURKEYS
- 1 May 1940
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Heredity
- Vol. 31 (5) , 215-218
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a104887
Abstract
Slate-colored turkeys were mated to Bronze, Bourbon Red, Black-winged Bronze and Narragansetts. All the F1 progeny were non-slate regardless of which way the cross was made. The slate here dealt with is a simple autosomal recessive to non-slate. Slates carrying the Bronze color gene (R) have barred flight feathers and pencilled tail feathers; slates (lilac) homozygous for the Bourbon Red gene (r) have nearly white, non-barred flight feathers and non-pencilled tail feathers.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Note on a bronze-bourbon red mosaicJournal of Genetics, 1937