Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Coat of many colours

I'm having a look a little harder at Chakotay's colour DNA profile..

Eumelaninistic masks are caused by the Em allele, which is found on the E locus. I remembered that Chak does, in fact, have this gene:



To explain the coding above:
E (normal extension) and e (recessive red)
So.. Chak carries the recessive e gene, which makes me hope for some ee red babies!
The (m) allows black tipping

So, my expectation of a sable pup too may actually be realistic!!

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