In episode I am joined by David Stephenson, John Marles, and Dr. Tom Bishop and we discuss performance genetics! If you do not know what that is, well grab your pen and paper because you are about to go school!
Dr Tom has provided us with the following links for you to do more research on this topic;
https://doi.org/10.2141/jpsa.0130237
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195121
https://doi.org/10.1111/age.12328
https://doi.org/10.17221/271/2015-VETMED
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8466513/
https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msy030
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/37/1/134/5566491
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014181302503733X
https://doi.org/10.17221/149/2017-VETMED
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9365715/
As mentioned in the podcast, here are the two USA companies that currently can test for some or all of the genes we discuss:
https://genecheck.com/
https://avian2.animalgenetics.com/Home.shtml
If you are in Europe you have these choices:
https://www.combibreed.com/pigeons/
https://iberogen.com/en/
https://slovgen.sk/en/home/
https://www.cobalab.com/en.html
Finally here is an article written by our own David Stephenson on this topic:
https://kastleloft.com/blog/2020/05/23/demystifying-the-ldha-and-drd4-racing-pigeon-genes/