Evidence for eumelanin and pheomelanin producing genotypes in the Arabian horse.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a110461

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Evidence for eumelanin and pheomelanin producing genotypes in the Arabian horse.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Woolf C M, Swafford J R

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The ultrastructural imaging of melanocytes coupled with analyses to detect sulfur-containing melanosomes by energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy were used to test the hypothesis that the yellowish-red and black pigments found in Arabian horses result from pheomelanogenesis and eumelanogenesis, re...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Genotype
Hair Color
Horses
Melanins
Melanocytes
Microscopy, Electron
Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
Skin

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