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Melanocytes fail to survive in hair bulbs of the Shiba goat (Capra hircus) with the dominant black-eyed white phenotype.
Pigment cell research - 1 Jun 1994
Tanaka S, Tojo H, Kasai K, Sawasaki T, Tachi C
Abstract excerpt
Dominant black-eyed white phenotypes are one of the most commonly observed traits in domestic animals. Their genetic control mechanisms, however, have not been elucidated. As the first step to approach the problem, we examined histologically the patterns of the distribution of pigment cells in Shiba goats (two each of day-73-postcoitum and day-112-postcoitum fetuses, and a 15-week-old kid) with the dominant...
Topics
- Animals
- Choroid
- Female
- Goats
- Hair
- Histocytochemistry
- Melanocytes
- Phenotype
- Pigment Epithelium of Eye
- Pregnancy
- Sclera
- Skin