Genetic analysis of white facial and leg markings in the Swiss Franches-Montagnes horse breed

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 130-136

  Rieder, Stefan ^a   Hagger, Christian ^a   Obexer Ruff, Gabriela ^b   Leeb, Tosso ^b   Poncet, Pierre André ^c  

^a Swiss College of Agriculture   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Swiss National Stud Farm   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; DEPIGMENTATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE; HORSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENOTYPE; HORSES; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE;

EID: 41149125422     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esm115     Document Type: Article

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