[Jacob-list] Gender Linked Horns, Scurs, & Genetic Letter for Lilac

[Linda]

Doesn't the expression of the dilute depend on what it's diluting? Like 
in rabbits - blue is dilute black, lilac (not our sheep lilac) is dilute 
chocolate.  I get confused with the terms blue/chocolate/dark lilac in 
regard to Jacobs. I tend to look at leg markings to make a judgment. My 
lilacs are pretty much all chocolates - with brown leg markings, brown 
facial markings, brown fleece, and they do breed true. Some do not hold 
color well and their fleeces tend to "gray" (or get to be an oatmeal 
color more than a blue/gray), but they retain chocolate leg markings.

Hobsickle at aol.com wrote:

> I believe that the "genetic letter" for "regular lilac" (as lilac is 

> used for any non-black phase) should be "d," standing for dilute.  

> This would be consistent with it's usage in other mammals with the 

> same apparent expression (not color expression, but melanin 

> distribution expression).  "D" would indicate the normal, 

> dominant, non-dilute allele and "d" would indicate the recessive, 

> dilute allele. 

>  

> -Dan


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