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OMIA:002572-8839 : Beak colour, generic in Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard)

In other species: long-tailed finch

Categories: Pigmentation phene , Craniofacial phene

Single-gene trait/disorder: unknown

Disease-related: no

Cross-species summary: Bill colour

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Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2025). OMIA:002572-8839: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) [dataset]. https://omia.org/. https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70

References

Note: the references are listed in reverse chronological order (from the most recent year to the earliest year), and alphabetically by first author within a year.

2025 Hua, T., Pan, R., Jiang, Y., Wang, Z., Hu, M., Zhao, W., Chen, G., Chang, G., Bai, H. :
Identification of InDels in MITF associated with beak color of Duck. Poult Sci 104:S0032-5791(25)01205-2:105965, 2025. Pubmed reference: 41108935. DOI: 10.1016/j.psj.2025.105965.
Qi, J., Hu, Q., Xi, Y., Yang, Z., Xu, M., Li, L., Bai, L., Liu, H. :
Genetic variations for bean color of duck beak revealed by genome-wide association study. Anim Genet 56:e70040, 2025. Pubmed reference: 40965305. DOI: 10.1111/age.70040.
2023 Pan, R., Hua, T., Ding, Y., Bai, H., Jiang, Y., Wang, Z., Hu, M., Chen, G., Wu, X., Chang, G. :
Study on changing disciplinarian of beak colors in ducks and the regulation network based on transcriptome sequencing. Poult Sci 103:103266, 2023. Pubmed reference: 38039827. DOI: 10.1016/j.psj.2023.103266.
2022 Guo, Q., Jiang, Y., Wang, Z., Bi, Y., Chen, G., Bai, H., Chang, G. :
Genome-wide analysis identifies candidate genes encoding beak color of duck. Genes (Basel) 13:1271, 2022. Pubmed reference: 35886054. DOI: 10.3390/genes13071271.
Liu, H., Wang, J., Hu, J., Wang, L., Guo, Z., Fan, W., Xu, Y., Liu, D., Zhang, Y., Xie, M., Tang, J., Huang, W., Zhang, Q., Zhou, Z., Hou, S. :
Genome-wide association analysis reveal the genetic reasons affect melanin spot accumulation in beak skin of ducks. BMC Genomics 23:236, 2022. Pubmed reference: 35346029. DOI: 10.1186/s12864-022-08444-5.

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  • Created by Imke Tammen2 on 13 Sep 2022
  • Changed by Imke Tammen2 on 20 Sep 2025
  • Changed by Imke Tammen2 on 22 Oct 2025