Article
A structural variant at ASIP associated with the darkness of hair coat is found in multiple zebu cattle populations.
Animal genetics - 1 Aug 2023
Trigo Beatriz Batista, Alves Natália Fonseca, Milanesi Marco, Garcia José Fernando, Terefe Endashaw, Hanotte Olivier, Tijjani Abdulfatai, Utsunomiya Yuri Tani
Abstract excerpt
A structural variant (SV) in the agouti signaling protein gene (ASIP), namely ASIP-SV1, has been found to strongly correlate with the darkness of hair coat in specific regions of the body of bulls from the zebu (Bos indicus) Nellore breed. Here we visually analyzed the whole-genome sequence of zebu and taurine (Bos taurus) cattle to elucidate the extent of spread of ASIP-SV1 in different cattle populations. Of...
Topics
- Cattle
- Male
- Animals
- Darkness
- Hybridization, Genetic
- Alleles
- Hair
