A COMPLEX STRUCTURAL VARIATION ON CHROMOSOME 27 LEADS TO THE ECTOPIC EXPRESSION OF HOXB8 AND THE MUFFS AND BEARD PHENOTYPE IN CHICKENS.

A Complex Structural Variation on Chromosome 27 Leads to the Ectopic Expression of HOXB8 and the Muffs and Beard Phenotype in Chickens.

Muffs and beard (Mb) is a phenotype Phonograph in chickens where groups of elongated feathers gather from both sides of the face (muffs) and below the beak (beard).It is an autosomal, incomplete dominant phenotype encoded by the Muffs and beard (Mb) locus.Here we use genome-wide association (GWA) analysis, linkage analysis, Identity-by-Descent (IBD

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Integrable maps in 4D and modified Volterra lattices

In recent work, we presented the construction of a family of difference equations associated with the Stieltjes continued fraction expansion of a certain function on a hyperelliptic curve of genus $g$.As well as proving that each such discrete system is an integrable map in the Liouville sense, we also showed it to be an algebraic FULL SPECTRUM DIG

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