Japanese quail research measured by the number of published papers has gradually diminished
over the past 10 years, and the trend appears to be due to the decrease of works using …

A linkage map of the Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) genome was constructed based
upon segregation analysis of 72 microsatellite loci in 433 F 2 progeny of 10 half‐sib families …

S*S (Silver), S*N (wild type/gold), and S*AL (sex-linked imperfect albinism) form a series of
alleles at the S (Silver) locus on chicken (Gallus gallus) chromosome Z. Similarly, sex-linked …

Mass selection for increased, live body weight at 45 days of age was carried out for 17 or 20
generations in three lines (1, 2, 3) of Japanese quail. One line (C) was an unselected control…

ASIP is an important pigmentation gene responsible for dorsoventral and hair-cycle-specific
melanin-based color patterning in mammals. We report some of the first evidence that the …

Background The Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) is both an animal model in biology and
a commercial bird for egg and meat production. Modern research developments with this …

Little is known about epigenetic mechanisms in birds with the exception of the phenomenon
of dosage compensation of sex chromosomes, although such mechanisms could be …

After two generations of introgression of the sex-linked recessive roux color mutation into a
commercial broiler Japanese quail line with wild-type plumage, growth, carcass, egg laying, …

Background By comparing the quail genome with that of chicken, chromosome rearrangements
that have occurred in these two galliform species over 35 million years of evolution can …

Background Environmental exposures, for instance to chemicals, are known to impact plant
and animal phenotypes on the long term, sometimes across several generations. Such …