The two primary colour varieties of the German Pinscher breed are the red and the black and tan. Respectively, these are produced by the dominant yellow allele A )~ and the black and tan allele a' of the agouti locus. The dilute gene d is present in the breed at a low frequency and produces the rare
Inheritance of coat colour in the Hovawart dog
โ Scribed by R. Robinson
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 180 KB
- Volume
- 78
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-6707
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