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Post by gerbie2 on Jul 31, 2004 11:01:38 GMT -8
I recently had a litter from my pied agouti gerbil female and a male golden agouti male. the babies are only about 6 days old, but there are 3 DEH pups (2 female 1 male) and one golden agouti pup( a male) and 2 black pups( a female and a male) ;DI know where the golden agouti and the DEH came from, but the black came from nowhere! I only own one black gerbil and he has never bred any females (including his mate, he never once bred her) Agouti and DEH are in the family lines, but not black! I have no clue where black came from! Can gerbil litters have more then one father like cats?  |
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Post by lizzy on Jul 31, 2004 13:03:45 GMT -8
i think next to agouti, black is the most common colour. it's also a dominant gene i believe. it's certain that there was a black gerbil along your gerbils' parentages somewhere, no matter how far back, clearly the gene has been passed along.
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Post by queenofthenile on Jul 31, 2004 22:20:59 GMT -8
Black is a recessive gene. Spotting is the only dominant gene that controls coat color. Lizzy is right that there *must* be the black gene somewhere in the history of the family. It's just pure luck  . |
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Post by penguin on Aug 1, 2004 22:06:45 GMT -8
Getting black pups from golden agouti parents just means that both parents have a recessive gene at the agouti locus, or in other words their genetics are both Aa. If you take into account the DEH pups then all you know for sure about their genetics (that is if you don't know what their parents' genetics were) is that they are both: Aa P- G- C- Ee and the mom has the spotting gene. This is a good website that explains genetics well: www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/4243/genetics.html. I hope this helps some. |
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