Inheritance of the "rat-tail" syndrome
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2010-09-07T16:21:22Z
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Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service
Abstract
A form of congenital hypotrichosis, commonly known as rat-tail, is characterized by the colored hair anywhere on the body being short, curly, malformed, and sometimes sparse and an abnormal tail switch. The "rat-tail" syndrome is controlled by interaction between two loci. Cattle that express this syndrome must have at least one gene for black color and be heterozygous at the other locus involved.
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Beef, Rat-tail syndrome, Genetics, Breeds