Brief communication: Blue eyes in lemurs and humans: Same phenotype, different genetic mechanism

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 269-273

  Bradley, Brenda J ^a,b   Pedersen, Anja ^c   Mundy, Nicholas I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

DNA; Eulemur macaco; Iris; Melanin; Pigmentation

Indexed keywords

UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE HERC2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARRIER PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; HERC2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; OCA2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; EYE COLOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROSIMIAN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES COMPARISON; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EYE COLOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HUMANS; LEMURIDAE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67049155978     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21010     Document Type: Article

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