Sentences with phrase «dominant white gene»

These anomalies occur only with the dominant white gene, and even some cats with that dominant gene are exceptions if they are born with even small patches of color other than white.

Not exact matches

The defects appear to be linked to the dominant merle gene, since severely affected dogs are homozygous merles and often have excessive white in their coats.

If one of the parents carried — let's say for example — the dominant brindle gene instead, the pup could be either solid blue, brindle (brownish with streaks of other colors), or even pied (large white patches).

Not necessarily, but Aussies is inheriting two copies of the dominant form of the merle gene are almost always mostly white.

They will more than likely be greedy dogs as both Staffy's and Labs have a love of food and depending on which gene is the more dominant these pups will be a variety of colours although solid white won't be as common as it is with purebred Staffys.