Reminder – deadline for W20 samples
The deadline for submitting samples for the W20 Project is coming up, so send them soon if you want your horse included! I wanted to post...
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Mar 27, 2014
A teaser image from the book
Some close-up images of the reversed dapple pattern on a gold champagne Appaloosa mare, with comparisons to a sooty dapple palomino. I...
Mar 24, 2014
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...
Mar 16, 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 13, 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 12, 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...
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