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An Agouti-Signaling-Protein Mutation is Strongly Associated with Melanism in European Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus)

Although the European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) population of North-West Germany has a remarkable number of melanistic specimens between 10% and 25%, the underlying genetic mutation-causing melanism is still unknown. We used a gene targeting approach focusing on MC1R and ASIP as important genes...

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Autores principales: Reissmann, Monika, Lutz, Walburga, Lieckfeldt, Dietmar, Sandoval-Castellanos, Edson, Ludwig, Arne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7349051/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32545389
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes11060647