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Whole Genome Sequencing Identifies a Missense Mutation in HES7 Associated with Short Tails in Asian Domestic Cats.
Scientific reports - 25 Aug 2016
Xu Xiao, Sun Xin, Hu Xue-Song, Zhuang Yan, Liu Yue-Chen, Meng Hao, Miao Lin, Yu He, Luo Shu-Jin
Abstract excerpt
Domestic cats exhibit abundant variations in tail morphology and serve as an excellent model to study the development and evolution of vertebrate tails. Cats with shortened and kinked tails were first recorded in the Malayan archipelago by Charles Darwin in 1868 and remain quite common today in Southeast and East Asia. To elucidate the genetic basis of short tails in Asian cats, we built a pedigree of 13 cats...
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