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/ˈsɪlki/ · noun
A chicken of a certain breed with very fine, silk-like feathers, blue-black skin and bones, and five toes per foot (instead of the usual four)..
Our results also identified the causative mutation of polydactylous Silkie was not exist in other nonpolydactyly chickens, suggesting that SNP of polydactyly in Silkie has fully penetrated all other indigenous Chinese chicken breeds.
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Silkie means A chicken of a certain breed with very fine, silk-like feathers, blue-black skin and bones, and five toes per foot (instead of the usual four)..
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Our results also identified the causative mutation of polydactylous Silkie was not exist in other nonpolydactyly chickens, suggesting that SNP of polydactyly in Silkie has fully penetrated all other indigenous Chinese chicken breeds.
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