Meander tail: a recessive mutant located in chromosome 4 of the mouse.

Abstract excerpt

A variable kinked-tail mutant was found in 1974 in a moderately inbred stock of mice at Iowa State University, Ames. It was named meander tail and was shown to be completely recessive. Study 8 alizarin-stained skeletons showed all degrees of ankylosis or fusions of tail vertebrae and occasionally other vertebrae. Extreme examples had great reduction in number of tail vertebrae. Affected mice over 2 weeks old...

Topics

• Animals
• Chromosomes
• Genes, Recessive
• Genetic Linkage
• Mice
• Mutation
• Spine
• Tail