Dunskin

Appearance

Foals		Creamy/golden coat color, similar to buckskin, with primitive markings.

Foals

Creamy/golden coat color, similar

to buckskin, with primitive markings.

Bay base diluted to a yellow or gold color. Primitive markings are present. points and primitives are black in color.		Adults

Mimics

Dunskin horses could be confused with regular buckskins, because they can have a similar coat color. Darker shade dunskins could be confused with bay dun.

Dunskin horses have a more yellow tone, like buckskin. Bay dun horses tend to have a more peachy tone.

Dunskins also show primitive markings because of the dun dilution.

	Buckskin

	Bay dun

Genetics

Dunskin is the result of a bay base diluted by one copy of cream and one copy of dun.

The cream (CR) dilution is an allele of the MATP gene. The dun (D) dilution is an allele of the TBX3 gene.

Dunskin:
Bay (E/_ A/_) + CR/n + D/_

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Bay | Buckskin | Bay dun | Dunalino | Smoky dun

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Articles

Imsland, F., McGowan, K., Rubin, C. J., Henegar, C., Sundstrom, E., Berglund, J., Schwochow, D., Gustafson, U., Imsland, P., Lindblad-Toh, K., Lindgren, G., Mikko, S., Millon, L., Wade, C., Schubert, M., Orlando, L., Penedo, M. C., Barsh, G. S., & Andersson, L.; Regulatory mutations in TBX3 disrupt asymmetric hair pigmentation that underlies Dun camouflage color in horses; Nature Genetics (2015); Doi: 10.1038/ng.3475
Locke, M. M., Ruth, L. S., Millon, L .V., Penedo, M. C. T., Murray, J. D., & Bowling, A. T.; The cream dilution gene, responsible for the palomino and buckskin coat colours, maps to horse chromosome 21. Animal Genetics (2001); doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2052.2001.00806.x
Mariat, D., Taourit, S., & Guérin, G.; A mutation in the MATP gene causes the cream coat colour in the horse. Genetics Selection Evolution (2003); doi: 10.1051/gse:2002039