A method to quantify mouse coat-color proportions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Ounpraseuth, Songthip ^a   Rafferty, Tonya M ^b   McDonald Phillips, Rachel E ^b   Gammill, Whitney M ^b,d   Siegel, Eric R ^a   Wheeler, Kristin L ^b,e   Nilsson, Erik A ^b,f   Cooney, Craig A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^e RHODES COLLEGE   (United States)

^f LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAMERA; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; EPIGENETICS; HAIR COLOR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOSAICISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; COLOR; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; TECHNIQUE;

AGOUTI; ANIMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; COLOR; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HAIR COLOR; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; METHODS; MICE;

EID: 65549107300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005414     Document Type: Article

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