Assignment of tremulous body mutant gene zitter (zi) to linkage group IV of the rat (Rattus norvegicus).

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a110879

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Assignment of tremulous body mutant gene zitter (zi) to linkage group IV of the rat (Rattus norvegicus).

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Yamada T, Mori M, Hamada S, Serikawa T, Yamada J

Abstract excerpt

Zitter rats are mutants from a Sprague-Dawley rat colony. They exhibit whole body tremors, defective overhairs, bent whiskers, and spongiform encephalopathy of the central nervous system. The anomalies are caused by an autosomal recessive gene, zitter (zi). We examined the linkage relationships b...

Topics

Animals
Brain Diseases
Chromosome Mapping
Crosses, Genetic
Female
Genes, Recessive
Genetic Linkage
Hair
Male
Phenotype
Rats
Rats, Inbred Strains
Rats, Mutant Strains
Tremor

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