Everybody is still on strike for now - eggs! C;mon down!!!!!
Found this over on FB - hairy read but article on spontaneous silky feather mutation that should answer some questions
Sigrid van Dort
8 hrs
Interesting new paper on silkie gene:
A cis-regulatory mutation of PDSS2 causes silky-feather in Chickens. A must read for my English reading friends. Skip the complicated parts, first 2 pages can be read without a problem, good picture on page 3 skip the text there, page 4 second column good read, skip till page 9 'DISCUSSION', thats a good read too till Material and Methods.
I made a Dutch article of it because not all Dutch can read papers in English.
You can open the Dutc...h article (www.tuinvee.nl) to see photos of half silkied half smooth Silkies.
Check out the link below:
http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1004576#pgen.1004576-Gunnarsson1
Found this over on FB - hairy read but article on spontaneous silky feather mutation that should answer some questions
Sigrid van Dort
8 hrs
Interesting new paper on silkie gene:
A cis-regulatory mutation of PDSS2 causes silky-feather in Chickens. A must read for my English reading friends. Skip the complicated parts, first 2 pages can be read without a problem, good picture on page 3 skip the text there, page 4 second column good read, skip till page 9 'DISCUSSION', thats a good read too till Material and Methods.
I made a Dutch article of it because not all Dutch can read papers in English.
You can open the Dutc...h article (www.tuinvee.nl) to see photos of half silkied half smooth Silkies.
Check out the link below:
http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1004576#pgen.1004576-Gunnarsson1