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coat color

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coat color
the overall or main color of the animal. If the points are distinctively colored that is also noted, e.g. black with white points.

cat coat color
besides the conventional black, white, gray, orange, there are blue, lilac, seal (2), chocolate, tortoiseshell (tortie), bicolor, chinchilla cat, smoke, cameo, pewter.
dog coat color
besides the conventional black, brown, white, gray, there are badger (1), belton, blanket, blue, brindle, deadgrass, dapple, grizzle, harlequin, merle, roan, liver (2), pied, sable (1), saddle (2), ticking, tricolor, wheaten.
horse coat color


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Coat color and horn shape seem to vary with the animal's habitat, which ranges from high grass savanna to equatorial forest and extends from Lake Chad south to the Cape of Good Hope and from Senegal, on the Atlantic
Here, we report that maternal dietary genistein supplementation of mice during gestation, at levels comparable with humans consuming high-soy diets, shifted the coat color of heterozygous viable yellow
The field of animal genomics has a history of about 10 to 15 years and has resulted in the discovery of numerous DNA "maps" for various traits in beef cattle, ranging from coat color to marbling and tenderness scores.
 
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