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SUBMITTER: Porto-Neto LR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5829098 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Porto-Neto Laercio R LR Bickhart Derek M DM Landaeta-Hernandez Antonio J AJ Utsunomiya Yuri T YT Pagan Melvin M Jimenez Esbal E Hansen Peter J PJ Dikmen Serdal S Schroeder Steven G SG Kim Eui-Soo ES Sun Jiajie J Crespo Edward E Amati Norman N Cole John B JB Null Daniel J DJ Garcia Jose F JF Reverter Antonio A Barendse William W Sonstegard Tad S TS
Frontiers in genetics 20180223
Evolutionary adaptations are occasionally convergent solutions to the same problem. A mutation contributing to a heat tolerance adaptation in Senepol cattle, a New World breed of mostly European descent, results in the distinct phenotype known as slick, where an animal has shorter hair and lower follicle density across its coat than wild type animals. The causal variant, located in the 11<sup>th</sup> exon of <i>prolactin receptor</i>, produces a frameshift that results in a truncated protein. H ...[more]