Article
Common white facial markings in bay and chestnut Arabian horses and their hybrids.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Woolf C M
Abstract excerpt
Common white facial and leg markings have a multifactorial mode of inheritance in Equus caballus. Evidence for the complexity of the genetic component is the observation that chestnut (e/e) horses have more extensive white markings than do bay (E/-) horses. Computerized records obtained from the Arabian Horse Registry of America, Inc., were used to determine if heterozygous (E/e) bay horses have more extensive...
Topics
- Animals
- Face
- Female
- Genotype
- Hair Color
- Horses
- Hybridization, Genetic
- Male
- Models, Genetic
- Registries