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Lab name: Agouti (often referred to as "Wild type")
Fancier name: Agouti
Genotype: A/*
Chromosome: 2
Originated: wild.
Show class: Agouti
General description: The coat is golden tan with a slate blue under color. The top of the mouse tends to be much darker than the sides and belly. Eye color is dark.
Pictured: Agouti (click picture for larger view) |
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Fancier name: Cinnamon
Genotype: A/* b/b
Show class: Cinnamon
General description: Similar to the agouti but with more chocolate coloring. The black in an agouti is replaced with Chocolate on a cinnamon mouse. Dark eyes.
Pictured: Cinnamon (click pictures for larger view) |
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Fancier name: Blue Agouti (among many other names)
Genotype: A/* d/d
Show class: Blue Agouti
General description: Coat is blue and Agouti with dark eyes. Base of hairs are dark blue, the middle of the hair is blue, and the tips are a white color.
*Blue agouti's can range in color and take very selective breeding to eliminate brown tones. Sometimes the agouti in the coat shows through more than the blue, making a blue agouti look very similar to Dove (US Dove).
Pictured: Blue Agouti Angora (click top image for larger view) |
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Fancier name: Silver Argenté (among many other names)
Genotype: A/* d/d p/p
Show class: Silver Argente is not recognized at this time.
General description: Each hair should have bands of: slate blue undercoat, silver middle, and white tips.
*Silver Argente's can range in color and take very selective breeding to eliminate brown tones.
Pictured: Silver Argente Angora (click top picture to see it larger) |
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Fancier name: Argenté
Genotype: A/* p/p
Show class: Argente
General description: Yellow in color with a lilac under color. Pink eyes.
Pictured: Argente (click bottom picture to see it larger) |
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Lab name: Chinchilla
Fancier name: Chinchilla
Genotype: A/* cch/cch
Chromosome: cch Chinchilla is on chromosome 7.
Originated: cch Chinchilla was originally from non-commercial fancier stock (point mutation)
Show class: Chinchilla
General description: Each hair should have a blue base, gray middle, and black tips. Belly to be fox. Dark eyes.
Note: Some clubs only allow chinchilla to be shown if the mouse is Fox A/at, not just homozygous chinchilla. The genetics information above is only based on the Chinchilla allele cch/cch as specified. Refer to agouti and tan (chinchilla dilutes tan to "fox") for genetics information on those. |
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Lab name: (non-agouti) Silver
Fancier name: Silvered
Genotype: a/a si/si
Chromosome: The Silver gene is located on chromosome 10
Originated: Spontaneous mutation originally found in English fancy stock.
Show class: Silvered
General description: Silver hairs scattered evenly throughout coat. Silvered mice can come in any color. Silvered mice are not to be confused with roan, although they can look very similar.
Differentiating between Silvered and Roan: Coming soon
Pictured: Silvered Chocolate. This is not a good example of silvered. She is greatly lacking silvering. |
