The Genetics of Coat Colors in the Mongolian Gerbil (<I>Meriones unguiculatus</I>)
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- MATSUZAKI Tetsuya
- <I>Central Institute for Experimental Animals</I>
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- YASUDA Yukio
- <I>Central Institute for Experimental Animals</I>
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- NONAKA Shuichi
- <I>Koropokkuru Inc.</I>
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- スナネズミ (<I>Meriones unguiculatus</I>) の毛色に関する遺伝学的研究
Abstract
Genetic studies demonstrated three loci cotrolling coat colors in the Mongolian gerbil. F1 hybrids of white gerbils with red eyes and agouti gerbils with wild coat color had the agouti coat color. The segregating ratio of agouti and white in the F2 generation was 3 : 1. In the backcross (BC) generation (white×F1), the ratio of the agouti and white coat colors was 1 : 1. Next, inheritance of the agouti coat color was investigated. Matings between agouti and non-agouti (black) gerbils produced only agouti gerbils. In the F2 generation, the ratio of agouti to non-agouti (black) was 3 : 1. There was no distortion in the sex ratios within each coat color in the F1, F2 and BC generations This indicated that the white coat color of gerbils is governed by an autosomal recessive gene which should be named the c allele of the c (albino) locus controlling pigmentation, and the agouti coat color is controlled by an autosomal dominant gene which might be named the A allele of the A (agouti) locus controlling pigmentation patterns in the hair. The occurrence of the black gerbil demonstrated clearly the existence of the b (brown) locus, and it clearly indicated that the coat colors of gerbils can basically be explained by a, b, and c loci as in mice and rats.
Journal
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- Experimental Animals
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Experimental Animals 38 (4), 337-341, 1989
Japanese Association for Laboratory Animal Science
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- CRID
- 1390001205501751040
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- NII Article ID
- 130006134876
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- ISSN
- 18817122
- 00075124
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
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- CiNii Articles
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- Disallowed