On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 15:19:57 -0500, Jenn Millington wrote:
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>> Nadine Sinn
>>Does any one know what a Canadian White Spot is?
>
>A Canadian White Spot is also known as the Spotted Slate. Essentially a Slate with
>white spots. Unfortunately, I don't have one yet :(
>
It's not just the slate spotted ones. The spotted mutation was initially
called canadian white spot, so all spotted animals, in all excisting
colours are actually Canadian White Spot.
The scientific article writing about this mutation is:
WHITE SPOTTING IN THE MONGOLIAN GERBIL.
Waring, A.D., Poole, T.W. & Perper, T. 1978. The Journal of Heredity, 69,
347-349.
*White spotting accompanied by some dilution of coat colour. White spots on
the crown of the head, nape of the neck, and tip of the nose. Dominant
inheritance, lethal when homozygous. The first spotted Mongolian gerbil was
born in January 1976 in New Jersey, U.S.A.
Karin.
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