Technical note: A novel method for routine genotyping of horse coat color gene polymorphisms

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1291-1295

  Royo, L J ^a   Fernandez I ^a   Azor, P J ^b   Alvarez I ^a   Perez Pardal L ^a   Goyache, F ^a  

^a Servicio Regional de Investigación y Desarrollo Agroalimentario Principado de Asturias   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coat color; Horse; Melanocortin 1; Real time polymerase chain reaction; Receptor

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; PRIMER DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DNA PROBE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HAIR COLOR; HORSE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

AGOUTI SIGNALING PROTEIN; ALLELES; ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA PROBES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HAIR COLOR; HORSES; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGOUTI; EQUIDAE; LONCHOCARPUS GLAUCIFOLIUS;

EID: 45549107023     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/jas.2007-0498     Document Type: Article

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