Genetic effects on coat colour in cattle: dilution of eumelanin and phaeomelanin pigments in an F2-Backcross Charolais × Holstein population

BACKGROUND: In cattle, the gene coding for the melanocortin receptor 1 (MC1R) is known to be the main regulator of the switch between the two coat colour pigments: eumelanin (black pigment) and phaeomelanin (red pigment). Some breeds, such as Charolais and Simmental, exhibit a lightening of the orig...

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Autores principales: Gutiérrez-Gil, Beatriz, Wiener, Pamela, Williams, John L
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1994163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17705851
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-8-56

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1994163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17705851
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-8-56

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