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Significant differences in shock-induced tail rattling, associated with genotype at the albino and agouti loci, were found in crosses between the inbred mouse strains BALB/c and C57BL/6. Using a mutation to albino in the C57BL/6 line, it was shown that the differences in backcross and F2 generations were not due to the pigmentation effects of the coat color loci. It was suggested that a linked locus (i) was responsible for the association between albinism and tail rattling.
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This research was supported by NIMH Training Grant MH 11167 while the author was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
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John, R.D.S. Major gene effects on shock-induced tail rattling in the mouse. Behav Genet 8, 359–370 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01067399
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