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A Chinese Silkie rooster exhibiting fibromelanosis.
The study of Dorshorst et al. shows that fibromelanosis (intense pigmentation of the dermal layer of skin and pigmented connective tissue) is caused by a complex genomic rearrangement that leads to upregulated expression of the Endothelin 3 gene located within the rearranged region. The study illustrates how structural changes have contributed to rapid phenotypic evolution in domestic animals.
Image Credit: Freyja Imsland (Uppsala University)
Citation: (2011) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 7(12) December 2011. PLoS Genet 7(12): ev07.i12. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v07.i12
Published: December 29, 2011
Copyright: © 2011 Imsland. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The study of Dorshorst et al. shows that fibromelanosis (intense pigmentation of the dermal layer of skin and pigmented connective tissue) is caused by a complex genomic rearrangement that leads to upregulated expression of the Endothelin 3 gene located within the rearranged region. The study illustrates how structural changes have contributed to rapid phenotypic evolution in domestic animals.
Image Credit: Freyja Imsland (Uppsala University)