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Contact: Dominic Wright
domwr@ifm.liu.se
46-073-697-5074
Linköping University
Caption: Three eighth generation advanced intercross siblings, demonstrating the extreme variation present in a cross between red jungle fowl and domestic chicken. LiU researchers have in this study discovered two 'pleiotropic' genes that influence both comb size and bone mass, and thereby also egg production.
Credit: Dominic Wright
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