My research interests concern the genetic analysis of development in mammals. With the goal of gaining access to the molecular biology underlying the development of the mammalian integument, my laboratory is attempting to positionally clone a series of spontaneously-occurring hair variants in mice.
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K. Ahearn, G. Akkouris, P.R. Berry, R. R. Chrissluis, I. Crooks, A.K. Dull, S. Grable, J. Jeruzal, J. Lanza, C. Lavoie, R. A. Maloney, M. Pitruzzello, R. Sharma, T.A. Stoklasek, J. Tweeddale & T.R. King. The Charles River 鈥渉airless鈥 rat mutation: Maps to Chromosome 1, allelic with fuzzy, and a likely orthologue of mouse frizzy. Journal of Heredity93:210-213.
E.H. Hall, J.A. Lathrop, B. Medina, R.J. Mutcherson II & T.R. King (2000) The hypotrichosis-generating shorn (shn) mutation maps to distal Chromosome 7 in the Norway rat. Journal of Heredity91:345-347.
M. C. Rule, R. J. Mutcherson II, A. D. Foss, T. K.-X. Nguyen, K. A. Myrie & T. R. King (1999) Mouse male sterility and histocompatibility (mshi) maps between the D10Mit51/168/212 cluster and D10Mit213. Mammalian Genome10:447-450.
A. N. Moemeka, A. L. Hildebrandt, P. Radaskiewicz & T. R. King (1998) Shorn (shn): A new mutation causing hypotrichosis in the Norway rat. Journal of Heredity89:257-260.