The "silver" Japanese quail and the MITF gene: Causal mutation, associated traits and homology with the "blue" chicken plumage

BMC Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Minvielle, Francis ^a   Bed'hom, Bertrand ^a   Coville, Jean Luc ^a   Ito, Shin'ichi ^b   Inoue Murayama, Miho ^c   Gourichon, David ^d  

^a UMR1313 GÉNÉTIQUE ANIMALE ET BIOLOGIE INTÉGRATIVE   (France)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER OF KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ALLELISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY GROWTH; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE; HEART SIZE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; QUAIL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOP CODON; ALLELE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHIMERA; COTURNIX; FEATHER; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOTE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AVES; COTURNIX JAPONICA; GALLUS; MAMMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; PHASIANIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHIMERA; CODON, NONSENSE; COTURNIX; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEATHERS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 77950500935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-11-15     Document Type: Article

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