Browsing 2014 Theses (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Taylor, J. (Jerry)"
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Structural variation at the KIT locus is responsible for the piebald phenotype in Hereford and Simmental cattle
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)The Spotted locus is responsible for white spotting (piebald) coat color phenotypes in cattle. Since the Hereford breed is fixed for this phenotype, we postulate that a selective sweep occurred during breed formation to ...