New insights into the melanophilin (MLPH) gene controlling coat color phenotypes in American mink

Gene

Volumn 527, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 48-54

  Cirera, Susanna ^a   Markakis, Marios N ^b   Christensen, Knud ^a   Anistoroaei, Razvan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

American mink; Deletion; MLPH; Neovison vison; Silverblue; Violet

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARRIER PROTEIN; CONTIG; MELANOPHILIN; MESSENGER RNA; MYOSIN VA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME 3; COLOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; EXON; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; INTRON; MELANOSOME; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MINK; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOP CODON;

AAMMPP; AAPP; AMERICAN MINK; ASPARAGINE; BAC; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BASE PAIR; BASIC LOCAL ALIGNMENT SEARCH TOOL; BLAST; BLUISH SAPPHIRE GENOTYPE; BP; CDNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DELETION; DELTAAB; G; GLUTAMINE; H; HISTIDINE; KA; LOD; LOGARITHM (BASE 10) OF ODDS; LYSOSOMAL TRAFFICKING REGULATOR GENE; LYST; MELANOPHILIN; MEMBER RAS ONCOGENE FAMILY; MESSENGER RNA; MG; MILLIGRAMS; MLPH; MRNA; MYO5A; MYOSIN VA; N; NANOGRAMS; NATIONAL CENTER FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY INFORMATION; NCBI; NEOVISON VISON; NG; NT; NUCLEOTIDES; OPEN READING FRAME; ORF; P(S)P(S); PCR; PEARL GENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PP; PPMM; RAB27A; S; SDW; SERINE; SILVERBLUE; SILVERBLUE GENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SLAC2-A DELETION MUTANT; SLAC2-A POINT MUTANT; SNP; STEELBLUE GENOTYPE; STERILE DISTILLATED WATER; UNTRANSLATED REGION; UTR; VIOLET; VIOLET GENOTYPE; WILD-TYPE; WT;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HAIR; HAIR COLOR; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MINK; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; MUSTELA; MUSTELA VISON;

EID: 84881257989     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.05.047     Document Type: Article

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