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  2. Dun gene - Wikipedia

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    A “blue” dun, or grullo. A red dun. The dun gene is a dilution gene that affects both red and black pigments in the coat color of a horse. The dun gene lightens most of the body while leaving the mane, tail, legs, and primitive markings the shade of the undiluted base coat color. A dun horse always has a dark dorsal stripe down the middle ...

  3. Equine coat color genetics - Wikipedia

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    Equine coat color genetics determine a horse 's coat color. Many colors are possible, but all variations are produced by changes in only a few genes. Bay is the most common color of horse, [2] followed by black and chestnut. A change at the agouti locus is capable of turning bay to black, while a mutation at the extension locus can turn bay or ...

  4. Dun - Wikipedia

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    Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN), the legislative assemblies of Malaysian states. Dün (band), a French progressive rock band active 1978-1981. Dun & Bradstreet, an American credit reporting agency. Dun comma or enumeration comma, a Chinese punctuation mark. Dun Cow, a brown bovine; a common motif in English folklore.

  5. Grullo - Wikipedia

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    The dun gene also produces light guard hairs in the mane and the tail. Grullo[1] (pronounced GREW-yo) [2][a] or grulla is a color of horses in the dun family, characterized by tan-gray or mouse-colored hairs on the body, often with shoulder and dorsal stripes and black barring on the lower legs. The genotype for grulla horses is a black base ...

  6. Tarpan - Wikipedia

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    The tarpan (Equus ferus ferus) was a free-ranging horse population of the Eurasian steppe from the 18th to the 20th century. [1] What qualifies as a tarpan is subject to confusion. It is unknown whether those horses represented genuine wild horses, feral domestic horses or hybrids. [1][2] The last individual believed to be a tarpan died in ...

  7. Chestnut (horse color) - Wikipedia

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    A red dun has a light reddish- tan body and dark red primitive markings and points Red duns have a chestnut base coat with the dun gene (one or two copies). Their body color is pale, dusty tan shade that resembles the light undercoat color of a body-clipped chestnut but with a bold, dark dorsal stripe in dark red, a red mane, tail and legs.

  8. Buckskin (horse) - Wikipedia

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    Buckskins coloring is a hair coat color referring to a color that resembles certain shades of tanned deerskin. Similar colors in some breeds of dogs are also called buckskin. The horse has a tan or gold colored coat with black points (mane, tail, and lower legs). Buckskin occurs as a result of the cream dilution gene acting on a bay horse.

  9. Cream gene - Wikipedia

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    A black base coat with the cream gene becomes the not-always-recognized smoky black or a smoky cream. Cream horses, even those with blue eyes, are not white horses. Dilution coloring is also not related to any of the white spotting patterns. The cream gene (CCr) is an incomplete dominant allele with a distinct dosage effect.