TY - JOUR AU - Lauvergne, Jean J. AU - Nieminen, Mauri PY - 2011/04/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Genetic polymorphism of adult reindeer coat colour in a herding cooperative in Finnish Lapland JF - Rangifer JA - Ran VL - 31 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.7557/2.31.1.2039 UR - https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/2039 SP - 155-159 AB - <p>In a random sample of 188 adult reindeer belonging to a reindeer herding cooperative in Finnish Lapland, the following coat colour mutants were identified: Abf at the locus Agouti (A), kalppinokka (WNk) at the locus White Nose (WN) and white at the locus W (White). Coefficients of coat colour phenotypic polymorphism K were estimated, in order to quantify this genetic polymorphism. Estimations of K were 12.8% for the locus A (Agouti), 5.1% for the locus WN (White Nose), and 7.5% for the locus W (White). This polymorphism results probably from a change in fitness coefficient of genotypes carrying colour mutants following domestication in a random mating context which has not yet been proved.</p> ER -