The occurrence of dermatosparaxis in a commercial Drakensberger cattle herd in South Africa : article

Dermatosparaxis is a heritable collagen dysplasia causing skin extensibility and fragility. In Belgian Blue cattle this mutation has been described as a 3 base pair (bp) change followed by a 17 bp deletion in the gene coding for procollagen 1 N-Proteinase (pNPI). An outbreak in a commercial Drakensb...

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Main Authors: D.E. Holm, E. Van Wilpe, C.K. Harper, N.M. Duncan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AOSIS 2008-05-01
Series:Journal of the South African Veterinary Association
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Online Access:https://jsava.co.za/index.php/jsava/article/view/235