Quantitative genetic aspects of coat color in horses

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2623-2628

  Toth, Z ^a   Kaps, M ^b   Solkner J ^c   Bodo, I ^a   Curik, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coat color; Heritability; Horse; Melanin; Repeatability

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAIR; HORSE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; FEMALE; HAIR; HORSES; MALE; MELANINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PIGMENTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 33749383653     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/jas.2005-704     Document Type: Article

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