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Pigment types in selected color genotypes of Asiatic sheep.
Pigment cell research - 1 Oct 1990
Aliev G, Rachkovsky M, Ito S, Wakamatsu K, Ivanov A
Abstract excerpt
The types and amounts of pigments in fibers from variously colored Tajik, Hissar, and Caracul sheep were determined by three methods: high-performance liquid chromatography, electron spin resonance spectroscopy, and light microscopic evaluation of melanosomes. In both dominant and recessive black lambs the color is due to eumelanin pigment. Brown and red phenotypes are the result of interaction of AWt and EBl,...
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