OMIA:000893-452646 : Screw neck in Neovison vison (American mink) |
Categories: Behaviour / neurological phene
Links to MONDO diseases: No links.
Mendelian trait/disorder: unknown
Considered a defect: yes
Species-specific description: Shackelford, R.M., Cole, L.J. (1947): "Individuals affected with screw neck show the symptoms of this condition by carrying the head tilted habitually either to the right, or to the left, or in some individuals by tilting it first one way and then the other. When turning around in a cage ... the head is thrown directly over the shoulder or back. ... Screw neck is apparently one of the effects of the pastel mutation which expresses itself in only about 25 per cent of the individuals that are homozygous for the pastel gene."
Genetic engineering:
Unknown
Have human generated variants been created, e.g. through genetic engineering and gene editing
Cite this entry
Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2022). OMIA:000893-452646: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) [dataset]. https://omia.org/. https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70
Reference
1947 | Shackelford, R.M., Cole, L.J. : |
'Screw neck' in pastel colour phase of ranch bred mink Journal of Heredity 38:203-209, 1947. |
Edit History
- Created by Frank Nicholas on 06 Sep 2005
- Changed by Frank Nicholas on 09 Nov 2013
- Changed by Imke Tammen2 on 29 Oct 2022