The Dark brown plumage color in chickens is caused by an 8.3-kb deletion upstream of SOX10

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 268-274

  Gunnarsson, Ulrika ^a   Kerje, Susanne ^a   Bed'hom, Bertrand ^b   Sahlqvist, Anna Stina ^c   Ekwall, Olov ^c,d   Tixier Boichard, Michele ^b   Kämpe, Olle ^c   Andersson, Leif ^a,e  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UMR1313 GÉNÉTIQUE ANIMALE ET BIOLOGIE INTÉGRATIVE   (France)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chicken; Deletion; Plumage color; Regulatory mutation; SOX10

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX10;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK BROWN PHENOTYPE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; MALE; MELANOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; COLOR; FEATHERS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; MALE; MELANINS; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SOXE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 79952628807     PISSN: 17551471     EISSN: 1755148X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2011.00825.x     Document Type: Article

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