Dominant curly coat in horses

Molecular Coat Colour Genetics Dominant White in Pigs and Greying with Age in Horses

Molecular tests for coat colours in horses.

Colour phenotypes may have played a major role during early domestication events and initial selection among domestic animal species. As coat colours mostly follow a relatively simple mode of Mendelian inheritance, they have been among the first traits to be systematically analysed at the molecular level. As a result of the number of genetic tools developed during the past decade, horse coat co...

Coat Color Inheritance in Horses and in Other Mammals.

HE colors of horses have long been a subject of interest to owners and T breeders of horses as well as to scientists and much information about them is found in the stud-book records of particular breeds. Attempts to use this information in framing explanations of the observed results of matings within or between different color varieties have been made repeatedly since the rise of genetics at ...

A splice variant in KRT71 is associated with curly coat phenotype of Selkirk Rex cats

One of the salient features of the domestic cat is the aesthetics of its fur. The Selkirk Rex breed is defined by an autosomal dominant woolly rexoid hair (ADWH) abnormality that is characterized by tightly curled hair shafts. A genome-wide case - control association study was conducted using 9 curly coated Selkirk Rex and 29 controls, including straight-coated Selkirk Rex, British Shorthair an...

Incidence of Mutation for Silver Coat Color in Black Forest Horses

Black Forest horses are typically chestnut colored with flaxen mane and tail. However, as their coat color can get very dark, they are sometimes also indicated as silver, a color depending on a black base color. To analyse if the silver allele is present in the Black Forest horse population, we genotyped 250 horses of this breed for formerly reported coat color mutations within MC1R and SILV. A...