equine coat color

In terms of equine coat color genetics there is no difference at all.

The breed comes in every equine coat color within the horse world, except gray.

Sorrel is an alternative word for one of the most common equine coat colors in horses.

No equine coat colour genetics studies have been done specifically on Fjord horses.

Pinto coloration is required, with white spots on a background any equine coat color.

Chestnut is considered a "base color" in the discussion of equine coat color genetics.

Equine coat color genetics determine a horse's coat color.

Colors accepted by the breed registry include all solid equine coat colors and roan.

Equine coat color (wikilinks to all other coat color articles)

Equine coat color (lists all coat colors)

The effects of additional equine coat color genes on a bay template alter the basic color into other shades or patterns:

The first descriptions of the dosage-dependent genetic control of the palomino coat color occurred early on in equine coat color inheritance research.

Recent research into equine coat color genetics indicates that "true roan" or "classic roan" is distinct from several similar patterns which are collectively called "roaning."

In terms of equine coat color genetics, all of these shades are based on the dun gene acting as a dilution gene over the black gene.

Equine coat color genetics, a skewbald horse begins with a chestnut (coat) base coat colour (called "red" by geneticists), or some other set of colour genes other than black.

The color pattern of the Appaloosa is of interest to those who study equine coat color genetics, as it and several other physical characteristics are linked to the leopard complex mutation (LP).

Color of the tail is linked to the overall equine coat color of the horse and is generally not a breed trait unless the overall color is selected for within a breed.

While these terms were set before equine coat colour genetics were fully understood, the variations do match up to modern genetic studies as variations of dun colour with the addition of other genetic factors.

The basic outline of equine coat color genetics has largely been resolved, and DNA tests to determine the likelihood that a horse will have offspring of a given color have been developed for some colors.

Much of the modern understanding of equine coat color genetics is owed to the work of Dr. Ann T. Bowling of the University of California, Davis and of Dr. Phillip Sponenberg of Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Brindle coloring in horses is extremely rare and may be either caused by or somehow linked to chimerism, resulting in an animal with two sets of DNA, with the brindle pattern being an expression of two different sets of equine coat color genes in one horse.

However, most color breed registries that record palomino horses were founded before equine coat color genetics were understood as well as they are today, therefore the standard definition of a palomino is based on the visible coat color, not heritability nor the underlying presence of the dilution gene.

One reason was lack of a full understanding of equine coat color genetics (For example, people did not know that Palomino is an incomplete form of the cremello dilution gene) and the other was a legitimate a concern about a condition called lethal white syndrome, which was not fully understood at the time.