Pigmentary switches in domestic animal species

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 994, Issue , 2003, Pages 331-338

  Klungland, Helge ^a   Vage D I ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cattle; Coat color; Evolution; Fox; MC1 R; Melanocortin receptor; Melanocyte stimulating hormone receptor agouti; Melanocytes; Pigment; Sheep

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; HORMONE RECEPTOR; INTERMEDIN RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CATTLE; COAT COLOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DOMINANT GENE; FOX; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SWITCHING; HAIR COLOR; MC1R GENE; MELANOCYTE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C KIT; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; SHEEP;

AGOUTI; ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; CANIDAE; OVIS ARIES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0038389308     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2003.tb03197.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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