Mapping and Characterization of the Dominant Black Colour Locus in Sheep

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 693-697

  Våge, Dag Inge ^a   Fleet, Malcolm R ^b   Ponz, Ricardo ^c   Olsen, Ranveig T ^a,e   Monteagudo, Luis V ^c   Tejedor, Maria Teresa ^c   Arruga, Maria Victoria ^c   Gagliardi, Rosa ^d   Postiglioni, Alicia ^d   Nattrass, Greg S ^b   Klungland, Helge ^a,f  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^f NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Coat colour; Evolution; Mapping; Melanocortin 1 receptor; Melanocyte stimulating hormone receptor; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; INTERMEDIN; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; PIGMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 14; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; HYPOTHESIS; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SHEEP; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; HAIR COLOR; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 10744228955     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1600-0749.2003.00090.x     Document Type: Article

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