Introductory Animal Genetics
Animal Science 221
Linkage
Anderson, L. and K. Sandberg, 1982. A linkage group composed of three coat color genes and three serum protein loci in horses. Journal of Heredity 73:91.
Anderson and Sandberg, 1982 published results on linkage studies for coat color and serum protein loci.
A)The number of progeny resulting from the four possible sire gametes were:
What is the percent recombination between these two loci? (To the nearest thousandth)
B) They also summarized 91 progeny from 7 stallions, each with the genotype, AlAAlBEe. In all sires AlAE and AlBe were linked together on the same chromosome.
This extension locus, E, has the allele e that when homozygous ee produces chestnut. The genotypes EE and Ee are black.
The distribution of the 91 progeny was :
Sire gamete | ||||
| AlAE | AlAe | AlBE | AlBe | |
| progeny number | 39 | 1 | 6 | 45 |
What is the recombination frequency between the serum albumen locus and the extension locus? (To the nearest thousandth)