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TESS line: a laboratory line of the musk shrew (Suncus murinus, Insectivora), triple-homozygous for the curly hair (ch), cream coat-color (cr) and red-eyed dilution (rd) genes and segregating the sucrase deficients (suc/suc).
Jikken dobutsu. Experimental animals - 1 Jan 1994
Ohno T, Oda S, Namikawa T
Abstract excerpt
The TESS line, the first tester line of the Suncus has been developed. The TESS shrews are homozygous for three morphological mutant genes, ch, cr and rd. The gene (suc) for sucrase activity deficiency in intestinal brush-border membranes also exists in the line, and its frequency was 34.3%. The...
Topics
- Animals
- Animals, Inbred Strains
- Animals, Laboratory
- Body Weight
- Eye Color
- Genetic Linkage
- Genotype
- Hair Color
- Homozygote
- Male
- Mutation
- Shrews
- Sucrase