[Analysis of the inheritance of taillessness in the Baikuzino population of cats from Udmurtia].
A new mutation of taillessness was found in its extreme form in an isolated cat population from a Russian region. The mutation was expressed as the absence of tail or its shortening. Genetic analysis gives grounds to suppose that this trait is controlled by a dominant gene with a probable recessive lethal effect at an early embryogenetic stage.
Zhigachev
A I
AI
St. Peterburg State Academy of Veterinary Medicine, St. Petersburg, 196084 Russia.
Vladimirova
M V
MV
D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009154:Mutation; D010375:Pedigree; D012426:Russia; D013623:Tail / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*