A single point-mutation within the melanophilin gene causes the plumage colour dilution phenotype in the chicken-6

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "A single point-mutation within the melanophilin gene causes the plumage colour dilution phenotype in the chicken"</p><p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/9/7</p><p>BMC Genetics 2008;9():7-7.</p><p>Published online 15 Jan 2008</p><p>PMCID:PMC2253553.</p><p></p>x) spleen, and skin at ages (a) E14, (b) E17 and (c) 10 weeks. Size is indicated on the right

A single point-mutation within the melanophilin gene causes the plumage colour dilution phenotype in the chicken-4

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "A single point-mutation within the melanophilin gene causes the plumage colour dilution phenotype in the chicken"</p><p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/9/7</p><p>BMC Genetics 2008;9():7-7.</p><p>Published online 15 Jan 2008</p><p>PMCID:PMC2253553.</p><p></p>ozygous dams, A) 5368, 5372 and B) 5363, 5385, is consistent with the phenotype. Males are denoted by squares, and females by circles. () and wild-type () haplotypes are indicated as solid black and solid white symbols, respectively

A single point-mutation within the melanophilin gene causes the plumage colour dilution phenotype in the chicken-5

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "A single point-mutation within the melanophilin gene causes the plumage colour dilution phenotype in the chicken"</p><p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/9/7</p><p>BMC Genetics 2008;9():7-7.</p><p>Published online 15 Jan 2008</p><p>PMCID:PMC2253553.</p><p></p>orms

A single point-mutation within the melanophilin gene causes the plumage colour dilution phenotype in the chicken-0

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "A single point-mutation within the melanophilin gene causes the plumage colour dilution phenotype in the chicken"</p><p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/9/7</p><p>BMC Genetics 2008;9():7-7.</p><p>Published online 15 Jan 2008</p><p>PMCID:PMC2253553.</p><p></p>orms

A single point-mutation within the melanophilin gene causes the plumage colour dilution phenotype in the chicken-1

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "A single point-mutation within the melanophilin gene causes the plumage colour dilution phenotype in the chicken"</p><p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/9/7</p><p>BMC Genetics 2008;9():7-7.</p><p>Published online 15 Jan 2008</p><p>PMCID:PMC2253553.</p><p></p>x) spleen, and skin at ages (a) E14, (b) E17 and (c) 10 weeks. Size is indicated on the right

A single point-mutation within the melanophilin gene causes the plumage colour dilution phenotype in the chicken-3

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "A single point-mutation within the melanophilin gene causes the plumage colour dilution phenotype in the chicken"</p><p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/9/7</p><p>BMC Genetics 2008;9():7-7.</p><p>Published online 15 Jan 2008</p><p>PMCID:PMC2253553.</p><p></p>into two fragments of sizes 334 bp and 146 bp, while the allele does not digest; (A) , (B) , (C)

A single point-mutation within the melanophilin gene causes the plumage colour dilution phenotype in the chicken-2

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "A single point-mutation within the melanophilin gene causes the plumage colour dilution phenotype in the chicken"</p><p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/9/7</p><p>BMC Genetics 2008;9():7-7.</p><p>Published online 15 Jan 2008</p><p>PMCID:PMC2253553.</p><p></p>, and respective amino acids are shown above the first base pair in a codon for the homozygous sequences. (B) ClustalW alignment of the wild type (WT) and mutated (LN, GS3 and LAV, respectively) amino acid sequences from mouse [6], human [13], and chicken

Complete association between a retroviral insertion in the tyrosinase gene and the recessive white mutation in chickens-7

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Complete association between a retroviral insertion in the tyrosinase gene and the recessive white mutation in chickens"</p><p>BMC Genomics 2006;7():19-19.</p><p>Published online 5 Feb 2006</p><p>PMCID:PMC1373650.</p><p>Copyright © 2006 Chang et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.</p>ly. In heterozygous chickens, both 481 bp and 345 bp bands were detected by the diagnostic genotyping test

Complete association between a retroviral insertion in the tyrosinase gene and the recessive white mutation in chickens-10

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Complete association between a retroviral insertion in the tyrosinase gene and the recessive white mutation in chickens"</p><p>BMC Genomics 2006;7():19-19.</p><p>Published online 5 Feb 2006</p><p>PMCID:PMC1373650.</p><p>Copyright © 2006 Chang et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.</p> the heterozygous colored chicken was the normal sized transcript (lane 5, 6). There was no aberrant transcript in the homozygous black plumage chickens (lane 3, 4)

Complete association between a retroviral insertion in the tyrosinase gene and the recessive white mutation in chickens-0

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Complete association between a retroviral insertion in the tyrosinase gene and the recessive white mutation in chickens"</p><p>BMC Genomics 2006;7():19-19.</p><p>Published online 5 Feb 2006</p><p>PMCID:PMC1373650.</p><p>Copyright © 2006 Chang et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.</p>her color loci. Here the animal carries the wild type allele at the Extension locus, the wild type allele at the Columbian locus and the silver allele at the Silver locus. On the right, a recessive white chicken, full sib from the previous one, exhibits full white plumage