Albinism in the American mink (Neovison vison) is associated with a tyrosinase nonsense mutation

Animal Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 645-648

  Anistoroaei, R ^a,b   Fredholm, M ^a   Christensen, K ^a   Leeb, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Albino; Mink; Nonsense mutation; Regal White; Tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PRIMER DNA;

ALBINISM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; MINK; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOP CODON;

ALBINISM; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CODON, NONSENSE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MINK; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MUSTELA; MUSTELA VISON;

EID: 55949127974     PISSN: 02689146     EISSN: 13652052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2008.01788.x     Document Type: Article

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