A composite six bp in-frame deletion in the melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) gene is associated with the Japanese brindling coat colour in rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

BMC Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Fontanesi, Luca ^a   Scotti, Emilio ^a   Colombo, Michela ^a   Beretti, Francesca ^a   Forestier, Lionel ^b   Dall'Olio, Stefania ^a   Deretz, Séverine ^c   Russo, Vincenzo ^a   Allain, Daniel ^c   Oulmouden, Ahmad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI PROTEIN; EUMELANIN; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING LINE; CAT; CODOMINANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EXTENSION GENE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAIR COLOR; HOMOZYGOTE; JAPANESE; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; RABBIT; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYRIAN HAMSTER; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; GENETICS;

AGOUTI; ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

AGOUTI SIGNALING PROTEIN; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; HAIR COLOR; RABBITS; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 77954064730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-11-59     Document Type: Article

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