Syrian Hamster Color Genetics

Genetic characterization of sex linked yellow in syrian hamsters could shed light on this paradox and identify additional components of the pigment type switching pathway.

Syrian hamster color genetics. Wild syrian hamsters are golden coloured and short haired. This color is called golden. The color of a syrian hamster s eyes and ears are usually determined by the color of their coat. However by contrast to laboratory mice very little of the classical work on coat color variation in syrian hamsters n ixon et al.

If you have a syrian hamster that is blonde cinnamon lilac honey or fawn then these often have red eyes. On our instagram page i ve started a series of genetics posts that hopefully teach syrian hamster genetics in an way that is easily understood by everyone even without a background in genetics or biology. Generate a molecular genetic map of the syrian hamster x chromosome that includes sex linked yellow which provides a basis for molecular genetic and epistasis. The posts on here will be a little more in depth but hopefully still easily understood.

It would therefore be more likely than normal coloured hamsters to be. In the wild syrian hamsters were basically all the same color. 1970 has been developed at the molecular genetic level. One popular color is brown syrian hamsters.

Changing this would make the animal less well adapted to its environment. But over the years a number of mutations appeared and now you can find a wide range of colours and coat types some being common and other rare. The syrian hamster is commonly called golden hamster referring to the wild colour. Syrian hamsters have 22 pairs of chromosomes and some of the genes within those chromosomes determine what the hamster will look like.

Most mutations that are studied in hamsters affect coat colour type and pattern. The genes that determine that color were passed from generation to generation producing hamsters that were basically the same color golden. I hope this site will be of use to the ethical hamster breeding community. Syrian hamsters are often seen in colors diverging from the usual gold as a result of accumulated years of breeding.

Use the drop down menus on the link bar to go through the different. Brown ranges over a broad color spectrum. A common favorite according to author holly sullivant is dark brown. Mutations at a gene locus may cause something to be altered in the development of the characteristics controlled by that gene.

Here we use a comparative genomic approach to generate a molecular genetic map of the syrian hamster. Some coat colors have several different eye and ear color combinations such as the cream variety which can have black red or ruby eyes. I set up this site on in order to create a nice place where people could come learn about hamster genetics learn the correct names and gene codes for a hamsters colours and also to record genetic abnormalities in hamsters such as chimerism and mosaicism. The site isn t fully done as of yet update log.

Syrian hamsters to study the biology and genetics of sex linked yellow together with other coat color variants and confirmed that the mutation behaves similarly to what was originally reported robinson 1966 1972.