Tyrosinase mutations associated with Siamese and Burmese patterns in the domestic cat (Felis catus)

Animal Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 119-126

  Lyons, L A ^a   Imes, D L ^a   Rah, H C ^a   Grahn, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Albinism; Albino; Burmese; Domestic cat; Felis catus; Siamese; Temperature sensitive; Tonkinese; Tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PRIMER DNA;

ALBINISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAT; CAT DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALBINISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CATUS; FELIDAE; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 17144394138     PISSN: 02689146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2005.01253.x     Document Type: Article

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