Analysing the diversity of the caprine melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) in goats with distinct geographic origins

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• 作者：Koray Kırıkç ; ı^a ; ¹ ; ² ; Antonia Noce^a ; ¹ ; Ali Zidi^a ; ¹ ; Juan Manuel Serradilla^b ; Juan Carrizosa^c ; Baltasar Urrutia^c ; Fabio Pilla^d ; Mariasilvia D&rsquo ; Andrea^d ; Juan Capote^e ; Iosif Bizelis^f ; Valentin Balteanu^g ; Taina Figueiredo Cardoso^a ; ^h ; Shahin Eghbalsaiedⁱ ; Agueda Pons^j ; Luz Á ; ngela Á ; lvarez^k ; Michele Pazzola^l ; Giuseppe Massimo Vacca^l ; Gabriela Obexer-Ruff^m ; Marcel Amills^a ; ^{marcel.amills@uab.cat}
• 关键词：Goat ; Pigmentation ; Positive selection ; Coat color
• 刊名：Small Ruminant Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：145
• 期：Complete
• 页码：7-11
• 全文大小：538 K
• 卷排序：145

文摘

The MC1R gene influences pigmentation in many mammal species. We have analysed the variation of this gene in a broad sample of goats. We did not detect a relationship between caprine MC1R diversity and geography. Positive selection and recent divergence might explain these findings.