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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2008-05-01
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Series: | Journal of the South African Veterinary Association |
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Online Access: | https://jsava.co.za/index.php/jsava/article/view/235 |