Novel Insights into the Bovine Polled Phenotype and Horn Ontogenesis in Bovidae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Allais Bonnet, Aurélie ^a   Grohs, Cécile ^b   Medugorac, Ivica ^c   Krebs, Stefan ^c   Djari, Anis ^d   Graf, Alexander ^c   Fritz, Sébastien ^b,e   Seichter, Doris ^f   Baur, Aurélia ^b,e   Russ, Ingolf ^f   Bouet, Stéphan ^b   Rothammer, Sophie ^c   Wahlberg, Per ^b   Esquerré, Diane ^d,g   Hoze, Chris ^b,e   Boussaha, Mekki ^b   Weiss, Bernard ^b   Thépot, Dominique ^a   Fouilloux, Marie Noëlle ^h   Rossignol, Marie Noëlle ⁱ   van Marle Köster, Este ^j   Hreidarsdóttir, Gunnfrídur Elín ^k   Barbey, Sarah ^l   Dozias, Dominique ^l   Cobo, Emilie ^l   Reversé, Patrick ^m   Catros, Olivier ⁿ   Marchand, Jean Luc ⁿ   Soulas, Pascal ^o   Roy, Pierre ^f   Marquant Leguienne, Brigitte ^e   Le Bourhis, Daniel ^a,e   Clément, Laetitia ^e   Salas Cortes, Laura ^e   Venot, Eric ^b   Pannetier, Maëlle ^a   Phocas, Florence ^b   Klopp, Christophe ^d   Rocha, Dominique ^b   Fouchet, Michel ^m   Journaux, Laurent ^e   Bernard Capel, Carine ^h   Ponsart, Claire ^e   Eggen, André ^b   Blum, Helmut ^c   Gallard, Yves ^l   Boichard, Didier ^b   Pailhoux, Eric ^a   Capitan, Aurélien ^b,e   more..

^a INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^b UMR1313 GÉNÉTIQUE ANIMALE ET BIOLOGIE INTÉGRATIVE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

^e National Association of Livestock and Artificial Insemination Cooperatives (UNCEIA)   (France)

^f Tierzuchtforschung eV München ^*  (France)

^g GeT PlaGe Genotoul   (France)

^h Institut de l'Elevage   (France)

ⁱ Genetic Analysis Laboratory for Animal Species   (France)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^k Farmers Association of Iceland   (Iceland)

^l UE0326 Domaine expérimental du Pin au Haras   (France)

^m Genes Diffusion   (France)

ⁿ EVOLUTION   (France)

^o UCATRC   (France)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; OLIGODENDROCYTE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2;

AGENESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; CATTLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; FETUS; FOXL2 GENE; GENE; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GOAT; HORN; HORN BUD; HORN DEFECT SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; OLIG2 GENE; ONTOGENY; POLLED AND MULTISYSTEMIC SYNDROME; POLLED GENE; POLLEDNESS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RXFP2 GENE; SHEEP; SKIN; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GOATS; HORNS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SHEEP;

EID: 84878025706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063512     Document Type: Article

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