Overexpression of an Agouti cDNA in the skin of transgenic mice recapitulates dominant coat color phenotypes of spontaneous mutants

Developmental Biology

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 162-173

  Kucera, Gary T ^a   Bortner, Donna M ^a   Rosenberg, Michael P ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COAT COLOR; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN COLOR; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0030042726     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.0014     Document Type: Article

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