Elaborate color patterns of individual chicken feathers may be formed by the agouti signaling protein

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 495-499

  Yoshihara, Chihiro ^a   Fukao, Ayaka ^a   Ando, Keita ^a   Tashiro, Yuichi ^a   Taniuchi, Shusuke ^a   Takahashi, Sumio ^a   Takeuchi, Sakae ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ASIP; Chicken; Feathers; Melanocortin; Pigmentation

Indexed keywords

EUMELANIN; MESSENGER RNA; PHEOMELANIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AGOUTI SIGNALING PROTEIN GENE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL GENETICS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHICKEN; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEATHER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84856119957     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.12.009     Document Type: Article

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