Blonde, a new mutation in Peromyscus maniculatus affecting fur, skin, and eye pigmentation.

Abstract excerpt

An autosomal recessive mutation affecting hair and eye pigmentation was discovered in the F2 progeny of wild-type deer mice, (Peromyscus maniculatus), trapped near East Lansing, Michigan. When homozygous, the mutation (designated as blonde, bl), reduces both black and yellow pigmentation deposite...

Topics

• Animals
• Crosses, Genetic
• Genes, Recessive
• Mutation
• Peromyscus
• Phenotype
• Pigmentation