The inheritance of the leopard complex of spotting patterns in horses.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a110997

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The inheritance of the leopard complex of spotting patterns in horses.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Sponenberg D P, Carr G, Simak E, Schwink K

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The leopard complex of white spotting patterns in horses consists of the leopard, few-spot leopard, blanket, blanket with spots, varnish roan (or marble), snowflake, frosted, speckled, and mottled patterns. Horses with any of these patterns can produce the other patterns when mated to nonpatterne...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Chi-Square Distribution
DNA Transposable Elements
Hair Color
Heterozygote
Homozygote
Horses

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