OMIA:002280-8355 : Coat colour, albinism, generic in Xenopus laevis

In other species: Bornean orangutan , rainbow trout , axolotl , turkey vulture , American black bear , Campbell's desert hamster , meadow voles , western chorus frog , grass carp , Sumatran tiger , grivet , dog , sheep , brown bear , Arizona pocket mouse , nutria , eastern chipmunk , rufous rat-kangaroo , hippopotamus , hares , northern pocket gopher , North American deer mouse , golden hamster , gray short-tailed opossum , American bison , raccoon , , fishing cat , cattle

Categories: Pigmentation phene

Links to MONDO diseases: No links.

Mendelian trait/disorder: yes

Mode of inheritance: Autosomal recessive

Considered a defect: yes

Key variant known: no

Cross-species summary: Congenital lack of pigment in all parts of the body. See also Skin colour, albinism, generic

References

Note: the references are listed in reverse chronological order (from the most recent year to the earliest year), and alphabetically by first author within a year.

1982 Seldenrijk, R., Huijsman, K.G., Heussen, A.M., van de Veerdonk, F.C. :
A comparative ultrastructural and physiological study on melanophores of wild-type and periodic albino mutants of Xenopus laevis. Cell Tissue Res 222:1-9, 1982. Pubmed reference: 6800656 .
1976 Wyllie, A.H., De Robertis, E.M. :
High tyrosinase activity in albino Xenopus laevis oocytes. J Embryol Exp Morphol 36:555-9, 1976. Pubmed reference: 827598 .

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