Article
Kinky coat, a new autosomal recessive mutation in the musk shrew, Suncus murinus.
Jikken dobutsu. Experimental animals - 1 Apr 1992
Ishikawa A, Hirunagi K, Oda S, Namikawa T, Tomita T
Abstract excerpt
A kinky-coat mutant was discovered at the fifth generation of the BAN strain originating from wild musk shrews (Suncus murinus) in Bangladesh. Mating experiments indicated that the kinky-coat character is controlled by a single autosomal recessive gene designated kc (kinky coat), which is not allelic to the gene ch (curly hair) previously reported in the Tr strain derived from wild musk shrews on Taramajima...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Female
- Genes, Recessive
- Hair
- Male
- Mutation
- Reproduction
- Shrews