A Master’s thesis at the College of Agriculture, University of Kirkuk, examined the genetic polymorphism of the FOXL2 gene and its effects on the productive and physiological traits of Japanese quail.
The thesis, submitted by Ghufran Alaa Abdul Karim, aimed to investigate the genetic polymorphism of the FOXL2 gene in Japanese quail, determine its association with productive and physiological traits as well as fertility and hatchability traits, and assess the potential use of this information in genetic improvement and molecular selection programs.
The study concluded that, using RFLP analysis of the FOXL2 gene, the polymorphism results based on restriction fragment length revealed that, among the extracted products from 30 families of female Japanese quail, the PstI restriction enzyme identified the corresponding genotype in the brown Japanese quail population.
