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  • Open Access
9 Citations
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Mapping of Diabetes Susceptibility Loci in a Domestic Cat Breed with an Unusually High Incidence of Diabetes Mellitus

  • Lois Balmer,
  • Caroline Ann O’Leary,
  • Marilyn Menotti-Raymond,
  • Victor David and ,
  • Stephen O’Brien,
  • Belinda Penglis,
  • Sher Hendrickson,
  • Mia Reeves-Johnson,
  • Susan Gottlieb and
  • Grant Morahan
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

19 November 2020

Genetic variants that are associated with susceptibility to type 2 diabetes (T2D) are important for identification of individuals at risk and can provide insights into the molecular basis of disease. Analysis of T2D in domestic animals provides both...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular Basis of Inherited Diseases in Companion Animals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,110 Views
14 Pages

Selection Signatures Reveal Candidate Genes for the Cornish Rex Breed-Specific Phenotype

  • Minja Zorc,
  • Tajda Horvat,
  • Anja Tanšek,
  • Tamara Ferme and
  • Peter Dovč

16 March 2024

Many coat color, behavioral and morphological traits are specific and fixed across cat breeds, with several variants influencing these traits being common among different breeds. In the domestic cat, rexoid mutations have been documented in several b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Companion Animal Genetics and Genomics)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,565 Views
9 Pages

Absence of 2899C<T Mutation in the WNK4 Gene in a Free-Ranging Lion (Panthera leo) with Polymyopathy

  • Desiré L. Dalton,
  • Chantelle Pretorius,
  • Lin-Mari de Klerk-Lorist,
  • Bjorn Reininghaus and ,
  • Peter Buss and
  • Emily P. Mitchell
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 February 2022

Polyphasic skeletal muscle degeneration, necrosis and mineralization of skeletal muscle was diagnosed in eight juvenile free-ranging lions (Panthera leo), from five different litters in the Greater Kruger National Park area that were unable to walk p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pathology in Zoo Animals and Conservation)