TY - JOUR AU - Bed’hom, Bertrand AU - Vaez, Mohsen AU - Coville, Jean-Luc AU - Gourichon, David AU - Chastel, Olivier AU - Follett, Sarah AU - Burke, Terry AU - Minvielle, Francis PY - 2012 DA - 2012/08/31 TI - The lavender plumage colour in Japanese quail is associated with a complex mutation in the region of MLPH that is related to differences in growth, feed consumption and body temperature JO - BMC Genomics SP - 442 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - The lavender phenotype in quail is a dilution of both eumelanin and phaeomelanin in feathers that produces a blue-grey colour on a wild-type feather pattern background. It has been previously demonstrated by intergeneric hybridization that the lavender mutation in quail is homologous to the same phenotype in chicken, which is caused by a single base-pair change in exon 1 of MLPH. SN - 1471-2164 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-13-442 DO - 10.1186/1471-2164-13-442 ID - Bed’hom2012 ER -