Appearance
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Foals have pale, more muted buckskin color. |
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Buckskin mushrooms are more strongly diluted, suggesting an additive effect of cream and mushroom on bay (while there is no clear difference on chestnut). The coat has a more muted tone and can have darker |
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Adults |
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Genetics
Buckskin mushroom is the result of a bay base diluted by two copies of mushroom and one copy of cream.
The mushroom (mu) dilution is an allele of the MFSD12 gene. The cream (CR) dilution is an allele of the MATP gene.
Buckskin mushroom:
Bay (E/_ A/_) + CR/n + mu/mu
Read more:
Bay | Chestnut mushroom | Bay mushroom | Buckskin
Articles
- Tanaka, J., Leeb, T., Rushton, J., Famula, T.R., Mack, M., Jagannathan, V., Flury, C., Bachmann, I., Eberth, J., McDonnell, S.M., Penedo, M.C.T., Bellone, R.R.; Frameshift Variant in MFSD12 Explains the Mushroom Coat Color Dilution in Shetland Ponies; Genes (2019); Doi: 10.3390/genes10100826
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