Hallo all,
>Congratulations are due to Fred Petrij, Karin van Veen, Vera Brückmann,
>who have all posted here frequently in the past, and Michael Mettler,
>the well known German animal writer. (AKA The Gerbil Genetics Group)
Thank you Julian !!
>The only fly in the ointment is that the GGG has shown that the mutation
>is not the same one as Burmese in cats and that it is much more like
>Middle Chinchilla in rabbits. This means that they have used the more
>complicated symbol c[chm] to stay consistent with existing literature.
>
>Even so, I am sure that even a stickler like Fred will not complain too
>much if people still use c[b] for convenience!
Well.......... I will understand it if anybody 'by mistake' still uses
c[b]..... :-) But actually we all have to get used to the c[chm].
The fanciers name will stay Burmese of course, the scientific name for
the Colourpoint Agouti is Chinchilla Medium. The scientific name for
the Burmese is Black- or Non-agouti Chinchilla Medium. I'm very sorry
about that, but we gave it a lot of thoughts and Chinchilla Medium is
really the most adequate name for this phenotype.
Greetings,
Fred Petrij
>
>I will be updating my webpages as soon as I get the next NGS Journal out
>of the way.
