The development of a sex-linked slow-feathering White Leghorn strain by gene transfer from an Indian indigenous breed.
Breeding techniques were used to transfer an economically important physiological character dependent on a single pair of alleles from an indigenous breed (Kadakanath) to the White Leghorn. The mating procedure used to develop a sex-linked, slow-feathering strain of White Leghorn by these means is described and it is shown that using the simplest genetic and breeding techniques productivity can quickly be improved.
D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D003116:Color; D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D005241:Feathers / Q000254:growth & development*; D005260:Female; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D006824:Hybridization, Genetic; D008297:Male; D012730:Sex Chromosomes