Insights into the alpaca skin transcriptome in relation to fibre colour
Through a combination of chemical and genomic data this study has demonstrated that "brown" alpacas are predominantly pheomelanic, and are similar to bay horses in colour phenotype. RNAseq was used to analyse colour genes the alpaca skin-transcriptome, and has provided the first annotation...
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| description | Through a combination of chemical and genomic data this study has demonstrated that "brown" alpacas are predominantly pheomelanic, and are similar to bay horses in colour phenotype. RNAseq was used to analyse colour genes the alpaca skin-transcriptome, and has provided the first annotation of the alpaca (vicPac2) genome which is not based on in-silico gene-prediction. Upregulated expression of the agouti gene results in white and diluted colour phenotypes in alpacas. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-530032017-06-08T03:11:59Z Insights into the alpaca skin transcriptome in relation to fibre colour Cransberg, Rhys Through a combination of chemical and genomic data this study has demonstrated that "brown" alpacas are predominantly pheomelanic, and are similar to bay horses in colour phenotype. RNAseq was used to analyse colour genes the alpaca skin-transcriptome, and has provided the first annotation of the alpaca (vicPac2) genome which is not based on in-silico gene-prediction. Upregulated expression of the agouti gene results in white and diluted colour phenotypes in alpacas. 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53003 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Cransberg, Rhys Insights into the alpaca skin transcriptome in relation to fibre colour |
| title | Insights into the alpaca skin transcriptome in relation to fibre colour |
| title_full | Insights into the alpaca skin transcriptome in relation to fibre colour |
| title_fullStr | Insights into the alpaca skin transcriptome in relation to fibre colour |
| title_full_unstemmed | Insights into the alpaca skin transcriptome in relation to fibre colour |
| title_short | Insights into the alpaca skin transcriptome in relation to fibre colour |
| title_sort | insights into the alpaca skin transcriptome in relation to fibre colour |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53003 |