Chinese white rongchang pig does not have the dominant white allele of KIT but has the dominant black allele of MC1R

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 84-87

  Lai, Fenju ^a   Ren, Jun ^a   Ai, Huashui ^a   Ding, Nengshui ^a   Ma, Junwu ^a   Zeng, Daiqin ^b,c   Chen, Congyin ^a   Guo, Yuanmei ^a   Huang, Lusheng ^a  

^a JIANGXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chongqing Key Laboratory of Pig Industry Sciences   (China)

^c Institute of Fruit Plant   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BREED DIFFERENCE; DOMESTICATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SWINE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHINA; GENES, DOMINANT; HAIR; HAIR COLOR; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; SWINE; VARIATION (GENETICS); WESTERN WORLD;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

EID: 34548447063     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esl053     Document Type: Article

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