Self colour pigmentation in Australian Merinos 

Selected Publications

Parsons Y.M., Fleet, M.R. & Cooper D.W. (1999) The Agouti gene: a positional candidate for recessive self-colour pigmentation in the Australian Merino. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 50:1099-1103.

Parsons Y.M., Fleet M.R. & Cooper D.W. (1999) Isolation of the ovine Agouti coding sequence. Pigment Cell Research 12:394-7.

Parsons Y.M., Webb G. & Bottema C. (1998) Assignment of the growth hormone receptor gene to band q17 of the homeologous sheep 16 and cattle 20 chromosomes. Mammalian Genome 9:599-560.

Parsons Y.M., Cooper D.W. & Piper L.R. (1996) Genetic Variation in Australian Merino Sheep. Animal Genetics 27:223-228.

Andersson L., Archibald A., Ashburner M., Audun S., Barendse W., et al  (1996) Comparative genome organization of vertebrates. Mammalian Genome 7:717-734.

Parsons Y.M., Cooper D.W. & Piper L.R. (1994) Evidence of linkage between high-glycine-tyrosine keratin gene loci and wool fibre diameter in a Merino half-sib family. Animal Genetics 25:105-108.

Parsons Y.M., Cooper D.W. & Piper L.R. (1993) Linkage relationships between keratin associated protein (KRTAP) genes and growth hormone in sheep. Genomics 20:500-502.

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