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Fig. 4.

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4. Five developmental stages of feathers and the regulators for natal down growth suppression in zebra finch. (A) Schematic diagram shows the five developmental stages of feathers: LoGZ, invagination, branching, feather β-keratin, and dermal papilla (Wu et al. 2018). (B) A summary of the mRNAs identified in Type I and Type II feather formations in zebra finch (Chen et al. 2016).