A non-epistatic interaction of agouti and extension in the fox, Vulpes vulpes

Nature Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 311-315

  Våge, Dag Inge ^a   Lu, Dongsi ^b   Klungland, Helge ^a   Lien, Sigbjørn ^a   Adalsteinsson, Stefan ^a   Cone, Roger D ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR; INTERMEDIN; MELANIN; MELANOSTATIN; PIGMENT;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EPISTASIS; FOX; GENE CONTROL; MAMMAL; MELANOGENESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; EXONS; FOXES; GENES, RECESSIVE; HAIR COLOR; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MELANINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, PITUITARY HORMONE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

AGOUTI; ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; MAMMALIA; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 1842339332     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0397-311     Document Type: Article

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