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A ‘Rex’ Mutant in the Cat

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IN the house-mouse, five genes are known with much the same action on the fur : shortening the guard-hairs, curling the whiskers, and making the baby coat (sometimes the adult too) wavy1. Three recessive genes in the rabbit, rex-1, rex-2, and rex-3, affect guard-hairs and whiskers as in the mouse mutants ; the fur is not wavy, however, but is short and plush-like. There are also similar mutants in the rat2.

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  1. Grüneberg, H., “The Genetics of the Mouse” (Martinus Nijhoff, 1952).

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  2. Grüneberg, H., “Animal Genetics and Medicine” (Hamish Hamilton, 1947).

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JUDE, A. A ‘Rex’ Mutant in the Cat. Nature 172, 81–82 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172081b0

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