20. Chicken Barring: You Can Create Auto-sexing Crosses

With sex-linked barring you can create sex-linked crosses, where the chicks can be sexed at birth. Reference Schwochow Thalmann D, Ring H, Sundström E, Cao X, Larsson M, Kerje S, Höglund A, Fogelholm J, Wright D, Jemth P, Hallböök F, Bed'Hom B, Dorshorst B, Tixier-Boichard M, Andersson L. The evolution of Sex-linked barring alleles in chickens involves both regulatory and coding changes in CDKN2A. PLoS Genet. 2017 Apr 7;13(4):e1006665. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006665. PMID: 28388616; PMCID: PMC5384658. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...