{"id":999,"date":"2011-05-27T13:31:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T01:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2011\/05\/why_are_some_chickens_white\/"},"modified":"2011-05-27T13:31:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T01:31:08","slug":"why-are-some-chickens-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2011\/05\/why-are-some-chickens-white\/","title":{"rendered":"why are some chickens white?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently this is a question that has been known to keep some biologists awake at night. (Can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m one of them; my insomnia is caused by other, equally pressing issues LOL)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/erv\/2011\/05\/barnyard_week_white_chickens_a.php\">ERV has written a lovely post looking at this<\/a>: apparently it&#8217;s all to do with metabolic pathways and endogenous retroviruses. 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