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Genome Analysis of Sable Fur Color Links a Lightened Pigmentation Phenotype to a Frameshift Variant in the Tyrosinase-Related Protein 1 Gene.
Genes - 25 Jan 2021
Manakhov Andrey D, Mintseva Maria Y, Andreeva Tatiana V, Filimonov Pavel A, Onokhov Alexey A, Chernova Irina Е, Kashtanov Sergey N, Rogaev Evgeny I
Abstract excerpt
Sable (Martes zibellina) is one of the most valuable species of fur animals. Wild-type sable fur color varies from sandy-yellow to black. Farm breeding and 90 years of directional selection have resulted in a generation of several sable breeds with a completely black coat color. In 2005, an unusually chocolate (pastel) puppy was born in the Puschkinsky State Fur Farm (Russia). We established that the pastel...
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