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Wildtype mice also have light-colored bellies. The hairs there are a creamy color the whole length because the agouti protein was produced the whole time the hairs were growing. [1] [2] In mice and other species, loss of function mutations generally cause a darker color, while gain of function mutations cause a yellower coat. [3]
Although this trait has been called the "sooty gene", similar coat-darkening conditions studied in mice suggest that coat darkening is a polygenic trait. [4] Just as in horses, the degree of sootiness in mice varies widely; some individuals have darker hairs that form a dorsal line, while others have extensive sootiness throughout. [ 5 ]
Aeumelanic hair coats, associated with mutations of the MC1R gene, have also been identified in mice, [7] cattle, [8] dogs, [9] and horses. [10] These coat colors are called "yellow" in mice and dogs, "red" in cattle and chestnut in horses. The loss of eumelanin in the coat is, in these species, harmless.
The fancy rat (Rattus norvegicus domestica) is the domesticated form of Rattus norvegicus, the brown rat, [1] and the most common species of rat kept as a pet.The name fancy rat derives from the use of the adjective fancy for a hobby, also seen in "animal fancy", a hobby involving the appreciation, promotion, or breeding of pet or domestic animals.
In 2003, Jirtle provided molecular evidence that maternal dietary supplementation of Agouti viable yellow (A vy) mice with methyl donors (i.e. folic acid, choline, vitamin B 12, and betaine) altered the coat color distribution and disease susceptibility in genetically identical offspring by increasing DNA methylation at the A vy locus.
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