Multiple splice variants within the bovine silver homologue (SILV) gene affecting coat color in cattle indicate a function additional to fibril formation in melanophores

BMC Genomics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kuehn, Christa ^a   Weikard, Rosemarie ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; SILVER PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; EXON; FIBER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYPOTHESIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MAMMARY GLAND; MELANOPHORE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN COLOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; CATTLE; GENETICS; HAIR COLOR; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BOS; BOVINAE; DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CATTLE; HAIR COLOR; MELANOPHORES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 36849017009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-8-335     Document Type: Article

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