What does LCP mean?

[lulitta]

Hiya,

This may make me seem like a real newbie and a clueless future gerbil owner but I was looking through the colours and genetics forum and saw some colours described as LCP, and I don't know what it means!

Thanks,

Julia x

[fysha]

LCP means Light Colour Point.

[betty]

It is used to describe a gerbil colour that has both the chm and ch colourpoint genes, making it lighter than its normal colourpoint equivalent.

For example a Burmese is actually a colourpoint Black, but Siamese is a light colourpoint Black.

Burmese = chm chm
Siamese = chm ch

[vexorg]

So the light refers to the body colour???

[betty]

Yes. I just means it appears lighter than the normal cp colour due to the extra diluting effect of the ch gene.