Sentence examples for comb size from inspiring English sources

Physical appearance traits often are used to distinguish between breeds of chicken and include feather-crested head, comb size and type, beard, wattles size, and feathered feet.

One such locus affecting comb size was reduced to 600 kb, with only two genes in the interval, and with expression analyses indicating greater effects from one gene, HAO1.

Physical appearance traits, such as feather-crested head, comb size and type, beard, wattles size, and feathered feet, are used to distinguish between breeds of chicken and also may be associated with economic traits.

For example, the crested head gene has significant negative effects on body weight (Magothe et al. 2010) and, comb size has an influence on sexual characters and viability (Von Schantz et al. 1995), whereas the rose-comb mutation causes both altered comb morphology and defective sperm motility (Imsland et al. 2012).

For example, studies using commercial strains or commercial/wild hybrids of domestic fowl have largely supported the hypothesis [ 29, 31], whereas no relationship between male comb size and testis size was found in a captive population of Red Jungle fowl, the conspecific ancestor of domestic fowl [ 32].

82 Using an intercross between wild and domestic chickens, QTL clusters were found that indicated multiple different trait types were overlapping, 13 with loci for comb size (a sexually selected ornament in the chicken) overlapping with onset of sexual maturity loci, 15 as well as with bone density and egg production traits.

Immunoblot images from the siRNA-transfectedcultured cells were adjusted in size to align lanes from different comb sizes.

While he gets his beard trimmed – a painstaking process that takes 45 minutes and involves an Afro comb the size of a garden rake – Rick dishes out a little parable about how to deal with paparazzi in light of Alec Baldwin's recent decision to quit public life (and New York) after one too many run-ins.

dsp1 1 hemizygous males present several homeotic transformations, notably a partial transformation of T1 to T2 leg as shown by a reduced sex comb (average size 6 teeth, rather than the 10 to 11 in a wild-type strain), and a partial transformation of A6 to A5 as shown by the presence of bristles on the A6 sternite (25% of dsp1 1 males exhibit this phenotype) [ 37].

This species displays supra-orbital red combs whose size is testosterone-dependent [19] and function in intra- and inter-sexual selection [20], [21].

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