Genome-wide association study and a post replication analysis revealed a promising genomic region and candidate genes for chicken eggshell blueness.

The eggshell blueness is an interesting object for chicken genetic studies and blue-shelled chicken industry, especially after the discovery of the causative mutation of chicken blue eggshell. In the present study, genome wide association study (GWAS) was conducted in Chinese Dongxiang blue-shelled...

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Main Authors: Hesham Y A Darwish, Seyed Benyamin Dalirsefat, Xianggui Dong, Guoying Hua, Jianfei Chen, Yuanyuan Zhang, Jianxiong Li, Jiansheng Xu, Junying Li, Xuemei Deng, Changxin Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209181