Colours of domestication

Biological Reviews

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 885-899

  Cieslak, Michael ^a   Reissmann, Monika ^b   Hofreiter, Michael ^c   Ludwig, Arne ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Albinism; Ancient DNA; Artificial selection; Coat colour associated genes; Dominance; Epistasis; Leucism; Pleiotropy

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT;

ANIMAL; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; GENETIC VARIATION; MAMMALS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SELECTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 80053973200     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2011.00177.x     Document Type: Review

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