Feather pattern: Muscle disease

Feather morphogenesis and feather pattern in normal and talpid mutant chick embryos.

A comparative study of feather morphogenesis and the development of feather pattern in normal and talpid embryos has been carried out. The development of talpid* CAM grafts shows that the effect of the gene is autonomous in the skin. The most striking effect of the gene upon feather morphogenesis is the failure of normal feather germ condensations to appear within the dermis. This is reflected ...

Developmental Expression Pattern Expression of Hex during feather bud development

We studied proline-rich divergent homeobox gene Hex/Prh expression in the dorsal skin of chick embryo during feather bud development. Hex mRNA expression was first observed in the dorsolateral ectoderm and mesenchyme at 5 days, then in the epithelium and the dermis of the dorsal skin before placode (primordium of feather bud) formation and then was restricted to the placode and the dermis under...

Feather pattern stability and reorganization in cultured skin.

1. The formation of the feather pattern has been studied in skin explants obtained from the lumbar region of the spinal pteryla of 6\to 7^-day chick embryos. Explants were cultured in vivo on the chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) or in vitro, either on semi-solid natural media (containing whole chick embryo extract (J£) or chick brain extract (EC)), or in a liquid synthetic medium (199). 2. Feathe...

Psittacine beak and feather disease in Iran, molecular and histopathologic detection

Molecular detection and characterization of beak and feather disease virus in psittacine birds in Tehran, Iran

Beak and feather disease virus (BFDV), a member of genus circovirus, is a small, non-enveloped, single stranded DNA virus. Although BFDVs are among the most well studied circoviruses, there is little to no information about BFDVs in Iran. The aim of the present study was to detect and identify BFDV molecules from the birds referred to the avian clinic of The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Tehr...