Sentences with word «agouti»

Genetic testing of the CBD103 gene for the KB variant will determine whether a dog is a genetic Carrier of agouti gene expression.

The grizzle color is the result not of a mixture of light and dark hairs, but of agouti coloration that has banded patterns of light and dark on a single hair.

He has a short, dense coat that comes in various shades of grey and brown, often with agouti coloring.

Effect of dietary carbohydrate source on the development of obesity in agouti transgenic mice

Dogs with one or two copies of KB will not express agouti coat colors (sable / fawn, tricolor, black and tan, or tan points) and their coat color would be solid in pigmented areas as determined by the E and B genes.

In Martin's view, the result strongly suggested that the patients had inherited the silenced gene from one of their parents, like the case with agouti mice.

Brown cats and cats with agouti, or ticked, coats are common in the region, and there is likely some relationship to Siamese and Burmese cats.

For example, one seed tracked was cached by agoutis more than 30 times, journeying 280 meters from its starting point and more than 750 meters total.

They created a strain of genetically identical mice, all of which had a coat color gene called agouti viable yellow (Avy).

Up to this point, the best way to study epigenetic effects has been a strain of mice known as agouti viable yellow.

However, dogs with a ky / ky genotype allow agouti expression and can produce puppies with sable / fawn, tricolor, or tan points depending on the genotypes present at the A locus.

Any animal with at least one kbr allele, and no KB allele will be brindled on agouti background (see A locus).

Agouti viable yellow mice might have something to say about the human obesity epidemic.

The alternate ky variant of the CBD103 gene disrupts the normal function of the CBD103 gene allowing for agouti (A locus) gene expression and the inhibition of black pigment synthesis.

It also demonstrates how many copies of this allele are hidden in dogs, which can not express agouti types (KBKB, KBkbr, KBky, at the k locus and / or «ee» at the E locus).

In fawn / sable dogs this test shows if other agouti alleles are present but hidden (only one copy of Ay).

P.A. Smith and Abi Cushman are the proud owners of two mischievous agouti rabbits named Coco and Cosette.

The site was founded by veteran rabbit owners Abi Cushman and P.A. Smith of New London, CT, who currently share their home with two mischievous agouti rabbits named Coco and Cosette.

She is a sweet, friendly bunny with gorgeous agouti fur.

To identify genes whose expression correlated with adiposity, we profiled gene expression in perigonadal adipose tissue from 24 mice in which adiposity varied due to sex, diet, and the obesity - related mutations agouti (Ay) and obese (Lepob).

They are two medium sized agouti colored bunnies.

Board the steamy local bus to explore Manuel Antonio, and spot agoutis browsing the forest litter, iguanas sunning themselves, and white - faced capuchin monkeys grooming each other in the trees near the busy beach.

One of the most unique features of the Deilenaar Rabbit is its coloring, which is a red agouti hue that features black ticking and mackereling.

Colors include black, blue, broken (any color mixed with white), chocolate, chocolate agouti, copper, chinchilla, opal, otter, red, siamese, silver marten, tortoise, and white.

He also didn't inherit a Yorkie black - and - tan agouti coat color allele (Or did he!

Because they are so recently domesticated, there are few colour variations available beyond the usual wild greyish - tan agouti coloration.

If Agouti females are fed with a cocktail of vitamin B12, folic acid and cholin, directly prior to and during pregnancy, they give birth to mainly brown, slim and healthy offspring.

Another relatively rare colouring Agouti describes hair which has alternate bands of dark and light shades.

After lunch at the open - air Blue Crab restaurant (I had kingfish again; MJ had the fried flying fish), Basil invited me along on his next agouti hunt and then gave us a simple lecture on the difference between Trinidad and Tobago: «Speed.

After being consumed by the mothers, the methyl donors worked their way into the developing embryos» chromosomes and onto the critical agouti gene.

Linnen says the small amount of genetic variation seen in the new version of Agouti suggests that the mutation occurred less than 10,000 years ago, fitting with the Sand Hills» formation.

With no more than a change in diet, laboratory agouti mice (left) were prompted to give birth to young (right) that differed markedly in appearance and disease susceptibility.

Normally, to achieve such a rapid evolutionary shift, a species needs to start with an alternative version of a gene already in circulation, giving natural selection more to work with, but in deer mice the new version of Agouti spread rapidly from a standing start.

Typically, when agouti mice breed, most of the offspring are identical to the parents: just as yellow, fat as pincushions, and susceptible to life - shortening disease.

For weeks, Bicknell and the Amerindian observers he hired trudged along, at about a mile per hour, scanning the forest for spider monkeys, red - rumped agoutis and more.

By robbing each other and hiding their loot, agoutis took seeds farther and farther away from their starting point, each time replanting the seed in a new but equally nutrient - rich spot for tree growth, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

When the cat - sized agouti comes across seeds buried by its comrades, it digs them up and hides them in a new place.

In these species, the gene agouti controls the relative amount of red and yellow pigments in the skin, and melanocortin 1 receptor (Mc1r) does the same for black and brown.

The thieving rodents would steal and cache repeatedly, carrying the prized seed ever farther from its original location to evade other interested agoutis.

In the meantime, Hirsch believes we should remember agoutis.

As a video by biologist Ben Hirsch at The Ohio State University reveals, these rodents aggressively snatch seeds from one another, sometimes moving in on a fellow agouti that has just retrieved a seed.

According to Hirsch, one of the study's co-authors, the rates of re-caching they have observed are unprecedented in agouti research.

Plasma agouti - related protein level: a possible correlation with fasted and fed states in humans and rats.

Female Dark Agouti rats (110 — 150 g) were orogastrically gavaged with emu oil (0 · 5 or 1 ml) or water (1 ml) for 5 d before intraperitoneal injection of 5 - fluorouracil (5 - FU, 150 mg / kg) or saline (control), and this was continued up to the day of sacrifice (48, 72 and 96 h post 5 - FU administration).

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Because KB is dominant, only one copy of KB is required to inhibit agouti gene expression.

The KB variant of the CBD103 gene promotes eumelanin (black pigment) synthesis by blocking agouti gene expression at the A Locus which would otherwise inhibit MC1R production of eumelanin.

According to the ARBA Standards, Lionhead rabbits are recognized in black, chocolate, blue, tortoise, blue point, blue - eyed white, ruby - eyed white, chestnut agouti, seal, silver marten, smoke pearl, pointed white, sable point, and Siamese sable.

Agouti German Shepherds can also go through many stages of coat development, both lightening and darkening, before they reach maturity.