Exploring the genomic landscape and putative functionality of colour-correlated loci
Contigs where candidate loci were located were extracted from the draft assembly and positionally inspected in relation to annotated genes. Function, metabolic pathways, and description of specific GO terms of genes flanking candidate loci was retrieved from the Panther database HMM library Version 17.0 (http://www.pantherdb.org/) and the AnimalQTL database in Ensembl genome browser (https://www.ensembl.org) all in reference to annotations in the Gallus gallus genome (GCA_016699485.1). Annotation quality was accessed with BUSCO for gene completion.