A missense mutation in TYRP1 causes the chocolate plumage color in chicken and alters melanosome structure.
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| Li, Jingyi | CCSD
The chocolate plumage color in chickens is due to a sex-linked recessive mutation, choc, which dilutes eumelanin pigmentation. Because TYRP1 is sex-linked in chickens, and TYRP1 mutations determine brown coat color in mammals, TYR...
Using NGS data to characterize genetics of meet-type and egg-type chicken lines
