Syrian Hamster Colors Genetics

The posts on here will be a little more in depth but hopefully still easily understood.

Syrian hamster colors genetics. 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. I breed for temperament but i also breed for show qualities. This is because it has been bred for much longer and therefore has the greatest number of mutations. Syrian hamsters can have either short or long hair satin or rex.

Some have been standardized by clubs for show purposes. We identified a major pet store supplier in the california central valley imported several different coat color variants and established standardized pedigrees from seven tortoiseshell females and six black males to confirm and. While hamster colors may seem like a surface issue there is in fact a large body of science behind how genetics influences hamster coat colors. The syrian hamster is commonly called golden hamster referring to the wild colour.

Many of these genotypes can also be combined to form new colours. The natural allele is. X linked determinants of this pattern recognized by variegation in females but not in males have been described in the domestic cat as orange and in the syrian hamster as sex linked yellow sly but are curiously absent from other vertebrate species. 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.

Black mottled campbells dwarf hamster. Using a comparative genomic approach we develop molecular markers and a linkage map for the euchromatic region of the syrian hamster x. Syrian hamster colors and coats. Hamster coat color genetics are of course akin to genetic science in the broadest sense as fur and eye color are determined by genes inherited from each parent.

Wild syrian hamsters are golden coloured and short haired. Changing this would make the animal less well adapted to its environment. Sex linked yellow in hamsters phenotype and genetics. Black and white syrian youngsters.

Mutant alleles for coat colour type tend not to survive in the wild. I breed dwarf and syrian hamsters and live in southern california. Should your hamster not be of one of these colours it can still compete in. Above all i am a hamster hobbyist.

Use the drop down menus on the link bar to go through the different. It would therefore be more likely than normal coloured hamsters to be eaten and less likely to breed. Each species of hamster has its own coat colors textures and patterns but it is the syrian hamster that has the greatest variety. They can also produce varying patterns of white in a hamster s coat.

My current focus is on understanding and documenting the color genetics. This basis for genetics applies much further beyond hamsters but for our purposes we. A following article in this series will discuss some of the mutations that affect syrian hamsters. Genetic mutations can affect the coat color of a hamster but they can also change the hair from the normal short hair to long hair or even to wavy hair like the rex gene.

1 different coat types.