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Sequence variants of chicken linker histone H1.a.
The FEBS journal - 1 Mar 2006
Górnicka-Michalska Ewa, Pałyga Jan, Kowalski Andrzej, Cywa-Benko Katarzyna
Abstract excerpt
Two allelic isoforms (H1.a1 and H1.a2) of histone H1.a were identified within two conservative flocks (R11 and R55) of Rhode Island Red chickens. These proteins form three phenotypes: a1, a2 and a1a2. Birds with phenotype a1 were most common (frequency 0.825-0.980) while the a1a2 chickens appeared relatively rarely (0.017-0.175). The third phenotype a2, not detected in the tested populations, has only been...
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