Feather colour affects the aggressive behaviour of chickens with the same genotype on the dominant white (I) locus

• Changsheng Nie ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Changsheng Nie, Liping Ban

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Liping Ban ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Changsheng Nie, Liping Ban

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of grassland science and technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Zhonghua Ning,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Lujiang Qu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: quluj@163.com

  Current address: Haidian District, Beijing, China

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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