Linkage between a hemoglobin locus and albinism in the Norway rat

✍ Scribed by E. A. French; K. B. Roberts; A. G. Searle

• Book ID: 104784972
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 462 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0006-2928
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00485864

✦ Synopsis

Data are reported and analyzed from intercrosses between laboratory rats heterozygous for albinism (c) and for a structural gene (designated Hbb) determining the hemoglobin polymorphism previously reported in this species. The two loci are shown to be closely linked, with a map distance of about 5 crossover units (eM). This is discussed with referenee to the probable subunit structure of rat hemoglobin and to the similar linkage relationship which exists in the mouse.