Functionally reciprocal mutations of the prolactin signalling pathway define hairy and slick cattle

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Littlejohn, Mathew D ^a,b   Henty, Kristen M ^b   Tiplady, Kathryn ^a   Johnson, Thomas ^a   Harland, Chad ^a   Lopdell, Thomas ^a   Sherlock, Richard G ^a   Li, Wanbo ^c   Lukefahr, Steven D ^d   Shanks, Bruce C ^e   Garrick, Dorian J ^f   Snell, Russell G ^b   Spelman, Richard J ^a   Davis, Stephen R ^a  

^a LIVESTOCK IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

^e LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN; PROLACTIN RECEPTOR;

CATTLE; HAIR; LACTATION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; SIGNALING; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOVINAE; CATTLE BREED; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; EXOME; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; HAIR GROWTH; LACTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMOREGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; BOVINE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HAIR; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BOS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CATTLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PLEIOTROPY; GENOTYPE; HAIR; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; LACTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROLACTIN; RECEPTORS, PROLACTIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN;

EID: 84923353620     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6861     Document Type: Article

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