Fertile male tortoiseshell cats. Mosaicism due to gene instability?

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a109964

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Fertile male tortoiseshell cats. Mosaicism due to gene instability?

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Moran C, Gillies C B, Nicholas F W

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Two fertile male tortoiseshell Burmese cats with atypical coat color distribution were found to have normal 38XY karyotypes. Synaptonemal complex analysis of one of these cats revealed normal meiotic pairing. Progeny data indicated that both cats were transmitting both alleles at the sex-linked o...

Topics

Animals
Cats
Chimera
Fertility
Karyotyping
Phenotype
Sex Chromosome Aberrations
Skin Pigmentation

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