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Genetic mapping of the belt pattern in Brown Swiss cattle to BTA3.
Animal genetics - 1 Apr 2009
Drögemüller C, Engensteiner M, Moser S, Rieder S, Leeb T
Abstract excerpt
The white belt pattern of Brown Swiss cattle is characterized by a lack of melanocytes in a stretch of skin around the midsection. This pattern is of variable width and sometimes the belt does not fully circle the body. To identify the gene responsible for this colour variation, we performed linkage mapping of the belted locus using six segregating half-sib families including 104 informative meioses for the...
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