Web lethal
PigeonGenetics.com is a collaborative Wiki that you are welcome to contribute to. For more information click here.
 | |
| Image required | |
|---|---|
| Locus | wl locus |
| Genetic symbol | wl |
| Common name | Web lethal |
| Inheritance | Sex-linked recessive |
| Mutation type | Morphological |
| Description | Webbing between toes, typically lethal before hatching. |
Web lethal (symbol wl) is a recessive morphological mutation located at the wl locus.
Description
Homozygous web lethal (wl//wl) pigeons typically die before hatching, and the dead-in-shell baby will have webbed toes. This mutation is unrelated to the mutation at the w locus that can cause a similar webbed foot phenotype.
