Two Independent Loci for Albinism in Raccoons, Procyon lotor

1988/09/01 by C. A. Long, A. Hogan, Anna Hogan
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Nursing · #melanin and skin pigmentation #Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques

paper · doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a110534

Abstract

Various crosses in the laboratory and reports in the literature suggest that albinism is recessive in the raccoon, Procyon lotor. On occasion, pink-eyed albinistic parents produce normally pigmented young. Pink-eyed white raccoons probably result from recessive alleles at independent loci. When these alleles are homozygous, each is epistatic to the alleles for normal pigmentation.

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