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We have studied egg-white protein polymorphism in 4450 incubated and un-incubated eggs from White Leghorn chickens.
We found the B-allele of Lush locus II to predispose to embryonic mortality. In two other populations we found the A-allele of locus II to predispose to embryonic mortality. It is therefore concluded, that embryonic mortality is not controlled by one factor alone.
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Schmid, D.O., Thein, P. (1970). Embryonic Mortality and Egg-white Protein Polymorphism in Chicken. In: XIth European Conference on Animal Blood Groups and Biochemical Polymorphism. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-5226-8_99
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