The Agouti gene: A positional candidate for recessive self-colour pigmentation in Australian Merino sheep

Australian Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1099-1103

  Parsons, Y M ^a,b   Fleet, M R ^c   Cooper, D W ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coat colour; Linkage; Melanocytes; Ovine

Indexed keywords

MERINO WOOL; PIGMENT;

EID: 0032818124     PISSN: 00049409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AR98099     Document Type: Article

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