Identification of Loci Interacting with Melanocortin-1 Receptor to Modify Black Coat Color in an F2 Nellore-Angus Population

In cattle, base color is attributed to activity at the melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R), historically termed the extension locus, with alleles coding for black (ED), red (e), and wild-type (E+). These alleles, in most mammals, are presumed to follow the dominance model ED > E+ > e, although exce...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hulsman, Lauren L.
Other Authors: Gill, Clare A.
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2011
Subjects:
QTL
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-05-7830