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Inheritance of coat colour in cattle. A review

Authors

L.J. Royo, I. Fernández, I. Álvarez, A. Rodríguez, F. Goyache

Issue

100A-1 (17-29)

Topic

Animal production

Keywords

Extension, Mc1r, Agouti, KIT, Roan, spotted.

Abstract

Coat colour affects differentiation of populations into breeds. Additionally some authors proposed the use of the genes responsible of coat colour variation in diversity studies. In this work we review the knowledge on genes affecting coat colour (loci Extension or Mc1r and Agouti or ASIP) and spotting patterns (KIT and MGF).

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