Developmental interactions in the pigmentary system of the tip of the mouse tail: Effects of coat‐color genes on the expression of a tail‐spotting gene
- 1 June 1991
- journal article
- genetics
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Experimental Zoology
- Vol. 258 (3) , 353-358
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.1402580311
Abstract
The tails of agouti C3H/HeJmsHir mice are completely pigmented, whereas the tails of black C57BL/10JHir animals possess unpigmented tips. Genetic analysis indicates that white tail-tipping is due to an autosomal recessive gene, with incomplete penetrance, that segregates independently from the gene for agouti with a maternal influence in the F1 generation. To analyze the influence of specific coat-color genes on the expression of tail-spotting in mice, five congenic lines of C57BL/10JHir with different coat colors were prepared. No influence was observed on the occurrence of tail-spotting in agouti (A/A) or dilute (d/d) mice or in F1 mice from crosses between black and albino (c/c), or in F1 mice from crosses between black and pink-eyed dilution (p/p). However, the frequency of tail-spotting was dramatically decreased in brown (b/b) mice. These results suggest that the mutant allele (b) at the brown locus is involved in determining the extent of pigmented areas in the tail tips of mice through an interaction with the tail-spotting gene.Keywords
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