title: Inheritance of white head spotting in natural populations of South American water rat (Nectomys squamipes Rodentia: Sigmodontinae).
abstract: Specimens with white head spots are present at low frequency in the natural populations of South American water rat (Nectomys squamipes) and absent in the sibling species Nectomys rattus. We analyzed the pattern of inheritance of the phenotype using complex segregation analysis of pedigrees of a captive-bred population of N. squamipes. We found that the inheritance of the white head spot in this species can be described within the framework of the major gene recessive model with incomplete penetrance of genotypes.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.
authors.forename: T I
authors.initials: TI
authors.lastname: Axenovich
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: D'Andrea
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fernandes
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Bonvicino
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Zorkoltseva
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Borodin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005838:Genotype; D008297:Male; D020412:Multifactorial Inheritance / Q000235:genetics; D009115:Muridae / Q000235:genetics*; D010375:Pedigree; D010641:Phenotype; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D051381:Rats; D013020:South America