It can also occure at the Agouti as it does in mice. (it also occures X
linked in mice but we dont have that in the USA, just the Agouti version
which is dominant to all in the agouti series except for dominant yellow).
Personally i prefer the chance that it could appear tommorrow. Speaking of
which...
BTW, when discussing the e(f) gene here a long while ago, mention was made
in passing about the fading yellow in guinea pigs which has been extinct for
soem time. I am trying to find info on it- are you aware of any? I had
supposedly "impossible" litter of guinea pigs occure and one of the theories
floating around is that the gene may have resurfaced as i never saw the
parents as babies, to know if they changed colour. (pale cream harlequin
THOGUHT to be epe ckcr and a Dark eyed white, eecrcr produce a DARK orange
pig, almost red. the darkest colour I should have had would be eep/e ckcr,
which would have to be cream, not orange-red).
AG
> Brindling usually requires either a special gene on the e locus, which
> has not yet appeared in gerbils, or, in some species the equivalent
> locus is on the X chromosome causing a similar pattern in heterozygous
> females.
>
> A Brindled gerbil may appear, but it may be some considerable time
> before it did. On the other hand, as mutation is governed by chance, it
> could appear tomorrow.
>
>
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> Julian
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> National Gerbil Society
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