GENETICS ON PLUMAGE AND EYE COLOR WITH THEIR PATTERNS IN PIGEONS (AVES: COLUMBIDAE)
Abstract
Bangladesh is full of many fancy pigeons with various colors, but there is a great dearth on the research on color genetics. Most pigeon keepers have some common ideas on these color genetics. They are well-known about blue bar, checker, mealy, and spread black. Several interviews with those pigeon keepers and experiences, a real picture has been come out on this topic. Out of 10 different pairs (blue bar × blue bar; blue bar speckle × blue bar; spread black × spread black; mottle × mottle; multicolored × multicolored; white × brown black; red white patches × red white patches; red × red; yellow × yellow; white × white) on plumage and eye color. The result suggested that same colored (homozygous) parents always produced same colored offspring where white showed epistatic phenomenon. Only heterozygous alleles of the same-colored parents were focused into different colored offspring. White recessive with bull-eyed parents always produced same type of offspring.
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