A&移动商务 研究ers Publish Groundbreaking Record of 鹌鹑 Chick Development
A quail research team at 皇冠体育365赌博&M University-商务 has published the first record of California valley quail chick development. 他们的研究, published in the journal PLOS ONE, will accelerate new opportunities for quail management and conservation.
凯利·雷纳博士.D., is the team's principal investigator and director of The 鹌鹑 研究 Laboratory 在一个&移动商务.
“Prior to this discovery, we didn't have a reference point for comparison to determine how quail chick development is impacted by environmental factors,莱纳说. “现在我们知道了。!”
Reyna's team has been researching ways to conserve U.S. quail species for decades. He said environmental factors including drought and extreme weather play a major role in the nation's declining quail populations. 然而,, there was no previous baseline of normal valley quail chick development to compare with results from lab and field studies.
“Now that we have charted the normal stages of development for the California valley quail, new opportunities exist to study the impact of extreme climate and other environmental pressures,” said 谢尔比佩里, graduate research assistant in the 鹌鹑 研究 Laboratory and lead scientist on the project.
Perry incubated valley quail eggs at normal incubation conditions, then measured and photographed the embryos within the eggs every six hours during the two-year project. The photographs were grouped into 43 stages of normal development to create a baseline of comparison for future studies.
杰弗里·惠特博士.D., is a research associate in The 鹌鹑 研究 Laboratory and co-author of the study.
“This is the most comprehensive study of development in a New World quail to date,” Whitt said. “It's something that has really been lacking in quail research and will prove to be invaluable for future studies.”
The 鹌鹑 研究 Laboratory is part of the new National Laboratory for Gamebird 研究 在一个&移动商务, with the mission to foster sustainable gamebird populations through innovative research, education and collaboration. The research laboratory will be housed in a proposed agricultural education complex 在一个&移动商务, with funding approved by the Texas Legislature in October 2021.
Read the full research article at the PLOS ONE 网站. 访问 fc-daudenzell.com/鹌鹑 to learn more about quail research 在一个&移动商务.
