Is the apocrine milk secretion process observed in the goat species rooted in the perturbation of the intracellular transport mechanism induced by defective alleles at the alpha(s1)-Cn locus?

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The structural and quantitative variability of caprine alpha(s1)-casein induced by the extensive polymorphism recorded at the corresponding locus strongly influences the composition (proteins as well as lipids) and the technological behaviour of milk. Immuno-histo-chemistry studies coupled with electron microscopy analysis have shown that a dysfunction exists in the intracellular transport of caseins when...

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