Selkirk Rex: Morphological and genetic characterization of a new cat breed

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 727-733

  Filler, Serina ^a   Alhaddad, Hasan ^b   Gandolfi, Barbara ^b   Kurushima, Jennifer D ^b   Cortes, Alejandro ^b   Veit, Christine ^c   Lyons, Leslie A ^b   Brem, Gottfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Agrobiogen GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

curly; dominant; feline; hair

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BREED; BREEDING; CAT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAIR; HAIR FOLLICLE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; INBREEDING; MALE; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BREEDING; CATS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HAIR; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867505158     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/ess039     Document Type: Article

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