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Heritable Phenotype: colorless

NomenclatureGenomic Location
SymbolcChromosome2
NamecolorlessLinkage map50 cM
SpeciesDracomimus familiarisGenome Coordinatesunknown

Summary Information
Phenotype: Drakes homozygous for the recessive colorless allele (c/c) have scales that are translucent white, lacking all pigment. The colorless phenotype is epistatic to other scale-color genes. There is no difference in appearance of colorless drakes carrying any combination of alleles of Metallic (M), brown (b) or dilute (d).
Drake
c/c

Phenotype Terms:
integument phenotype
pigmentation phenotype

Alleles and Phenotypes
AlleleSummary
CPresumptive wild-type allele
cRecessive allele
GenotypePhenotype
C/CScales pigmented
C/cScales pigmented
c/cScales translucent white, no pigment