Article
Coat-color gene suppresses sexual activity in Icelandic sheep.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Dýrmundsson O R, Adalsteinsson S
Abstract excerpt
Out-of-season lambing in Icelandic sheep occurs at a significantly lower rate among white than among nonwhite (colored) ewes. This limitation on the length of the breeding season is ascribed to a previously unknown effect of the top dominant allele at the agouti locus, Awh, which produces the ord...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Female
- Genes
- Hair Color
- Phenotype
- Sexual Behavior, Animal
- Sheep
