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Polymorphism in bovine serum beta-globulin was described for the first time in 1958 by Smithies and Hickman, and by Ashton. These beta-globulins were proved to be the specific iron-binding proteins of serum (Giblett et al. 1959) and were called transferrins. After Ashton’s finding (1959) of two additional alleles in Zebu cattle the identification of the following 15 transferrin phenotypes was possible
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Osterhoff, D.R., Van Heerden, J.A.H. (1965). TFG- A New Transferrin Allele in Cattle. In: Matoušek, J. (eds) Blood Groups of Animals. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6289-2_38
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