Color differences among feral pigeons (Columba livia) are not attributable to sequence variation in the coding region of the melanocortin-1 receptor gene (MC1R)

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Derelle, Romain ^a,b   Kondrashov, Fyodor A ^a,b,c   Arkhipov, Vladimir Y ^d   Corbel, Hélène ^e   Frantz, Adrien ^e   Gasparini, Julien ^e   Jacquin, Lisa ^e,f   Jacob, Gwenaël ^g   Thibault, Sophie ^g   Baudry, Emmanuelle ^g  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^e UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Birds; Color; Columba livia; Feral pigeon; MC1R; Pigmentation

Indexed keywords

AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; COLOR; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; COLOR; COLUMBIDAE; DNA PRIMERS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1;

EID: 84880998618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-6-310     Document Type: Article

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