The role of humans in facilitating and sustaining coat colour variation in domestic animals

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 6-7, 2013, Pages 587-593

  Linderholm, Anna ^a   Larson, Greger ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal breeding; MC1R; Selection

Indexed keywords

COLOR; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DOMESTIC PIG; DOMESTICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PET ANIMAL; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PURIFYING SELECTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; TUNICA ALBUGINEA; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL BREEDING; MC1R; SELECTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BREEDING; HAIR COLOR; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84883299920     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: 10963634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2013.03.015     Document Type: Review

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