Effect of mutations affecting coat color on the blood lymphocyte structure in the american mink (Mustela vison Schreber, 1777)

• Published in: Russian journal of genetics 2011, Vol.47 (1), p.76-82
• Main Authors: Uzenbaeva, L. B, Trapezov, O. V, Kizhina, A. G, Ilyukha, V. A, Trapezova, L. I, Tyutyunnik, N. N
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Animal Genetics; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Blood; Human Genetics; Lavandula; Microbial Genetics and Genomics
• ISSN: 1022-7954; 1608-3369
• DOI: 10.1134/S1022795411010182

American minks with different genotypes containing the Aleutian coat color allele in the homozygous state, including the single recessive Aleutian (a/a); double recessive sapphire (a/a p/p) and lavender (m/m a/a); triple recessive violet (m/m a/a p/p); and dominant-recessive cross sapphire (S/+ a/a p/p), sapphire leopard (S K /+ a/a p/p), and shadow sapphire (S H /+ a/a p/p) minks, as well as American minks without the Aleutian allele, including the standard (+/+); single recessive silver-blue (p/p) and hedlund-white (h/h); double recessive pearl (k/k p/p), Finnish topaz (t S /t S b/b); incompletely dominant royal silver (S R /+), standard leopard (S K /+), and black crystal (C R /+); and dominant-recessive snowy topaz (C R /+ t S /t S b/b) and Kujtezhyspotted (S K /+ b/b) minks have been studied. Homozygosity for the a allele has been found to disturb the subcellular structure of leukocyte, namely the formation of abnormally large granules.