Salmon: A new autosomal mutation demonstrating incomplete dominance in the boine snake Boa constrictor

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 254-256

  Ihle, R N ^a,b   Schuett, G W ^b   Hughes, K A ^b  

^a Arizona State University West ^*  (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WEST   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BOIDAE; BREEDING; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; MALE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; BOA; BOA CONSTRICTOR; BOIDAE; MELANOPHORA; REPTILIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 0034110045     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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