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.