The W20 Project
A project to raise funds and collect samples is underway to better understand the W20 variant in the W-series of patterns. I mentioned in...
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- Mar 17, 2014
"W" is for white-spotting
One way of looking at the inclusion of sabino phenotypes in the W-series is to assume that it refers to "white spotting" in general,...
- Mar 14, 2014
A family of diverse colors
Tobiano, roan, sabino and dominant white are all mutations that involve the same gene - KIT - which is important for understanding how...
- Mar 13, 2014
So what happened to all the sabinos?
What are the differences between dominant whites and sabinos? In terms of phenotype, they do not look different. As I mentioned in the...
- Mar 7, 2014
Names, categories and descriptive terms
It is possible to construct a rational system for naming and describing pinto patterns. Here is an attempt given what is currently known....
- Feb 13, 2014
Color and pattern variations
There are separate but equivalent mutations that can produce visually similar colors. This can complicate terminology and testing. As I...
- Jan 28, 2014
Classical versus molecular genetics
Changes in the field of genetics – from classical genetics to molecular genetics – have made horse color more complex. As an artist, I...
- Jan 15, 2014
Is this still a horse color blog?
So what do albino dogs have to do with horse color? Certainly the fact that there are “cremello” Dobermans is interesting, but why is...
- Jan 13, 2014
Cornaz albinos
An experimental Pekingese breeding program from 1913 documented an extremely diluted color scientists referred to as a Cornaz albino. So...
- Jan 6, 2014
A clarification
No, I am not breeding "albino" Shih Tzus... or any other animals, for that matter From time to time I get responses from readers...
- Jan 3, 2014
More albino dogs
A discussion of the form of albinism found in Dobermans and why assuming Padula's Queen of Sheba is the founder is probably mistaken. In...
- Jan 1, 2014
Albino Shih Tzu
A different sort of diluted dog has been found by a Florida Shih Tzu rescue. She resembles the albino dogs described in literature. This...
- Dec 31, 2013
Dilution in dogs
This is a short explanation of the common factors that dilute coat color in dogs, to provide background for the subsequent posts about...
- Dec 30, 2013
Searching for another founder
Early observations about the classic splashed white pattern (SW1) from Valto Klemola based on his study of the Finnhorse stallion...
- Dec 25, 2013
Red-nosed reindeer
An interesting - and seasonally relevant! - study from the British Medical Journal Earlier in the Christmas season, I posted a Bitstrips...
- Dec 22, 2013
More on founders
The silver dilution was mistakenly believed to have originated in the American Shetland Pony, but the mutation is much older. In the...
- Dec 20, 2013
Founders and mutants
Color can tell a story about common ancestry, when that color arose as a one-time mutation. It is known that the two horses above share a...
- Dec 19, 2013
Another minimal Classic Splash
Another horse, this time a Miniature Horse, shows a minimized form of the classic splashed white pattern. Here is another interesting...
- Dec 17, 2013
Range of expression for Classic Splash
A Gotland Pony foal shows a very minimized form of the classic splashed white pattern. One of the big questions about patterns is the...
- Aug 22, 2013
How I learned to stop worrying and love incorrect color terminology
Okay, maybe not love – but certainly stop worrying about it. Like a lot of people who find horse color fascinating, I once spent no small...
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