Amelanism in the corn snake is associated with the insertion of an LTR-retrotransposon in the OCA2 gene

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Saenko, Suzanne V ^a   Lamichhaney, Sangeet ^b   Barrio, Alvaro Martinez ^b   Rafati, Nima ^b   Andersson, Leif ^b,c,d   Milinkovitch, Michel C ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; REPTILIAN PROTEIN; RETROPOSON;

ANIMAL; COLUBRIDAE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; RETROPOSON; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

ANIMALS; COLUBRIDAE; MELANINS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; REPTILIAN PROTEINS; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 84948179361     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep17118     Document Type: Article

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