Coat Color

Seal Brown (horse) - Terminology
... Non-horse people often refer to many horse coat colors as "brown," in particular the bay color ... with two hundred." The implication is that lay observers will refer to a horse's coat color to be "brown" due to a lack of vocabulary, and those discussing ... is therefore preferable when discussing this specific coat color ...

Equine Coat Color
... Horses exhibit a diverse array of coat colors and distinctive markings ... While most horses remain the same color throughout life, a few, over the course of several years, will develop a different coat color from that with ... are present at birth, and the underlying skin color of a horse does not change, absent disease ...

Calico Cat - Genetics
... and larger the patches of ginger and dark-or-tabby coat ... In contrast a non-white-spotted tortoiseshell usually has small patches of color or even something like a salt-and-pepper sprinkling ... She observed this in the coat color patterns in mice ...

White Shepherd - Genetics
... There are many misconceptions about white-coat German Shepherd Dogs and the gene that expresses for their coat color ... Little's The Inheritance of Coat Color in Dogs hypothesized that dilution or partial albinism ce, ca and cch alleles of the so-called (C) gene caused the cream and white coat color variants in domestic ... hypothesized partial albinism explanation for cream and white colored coats has been applied across most domestic dog breeds, including white coat dogs from ...

Smoky Black
... Smoky black is a hair coat color of horses in which the coat is either black or a few shades lighter than true black ... is produced by the action of a heterozygous (single copy) cream gene on an underlying black coat color ... smoky black is a member of the cream family of coat color dilutions, and found in horse populations that have other cream gene-based colors such as palomino, buckskin, perlino and cremello ...