Syrian Hamster Color Genetics

Chromosomes exist in sister like pairs.

Syrian hamster color genetics. Beige hamsters sometimes have a kinked tail. Syrian hamsters have 22 pairs of chromosomes and some of the genes within those chromosomes determine what the hamster will look like. Examples of self hamsters include the black cream mink and sable. It is an unusual gene which is not simply either dominant or recessive.

It is an unusual gene which is not simply either dominant or recessive. Beige produced by breeding a two hamsters with the rust and dark gray genes the beige color variety is often the smallest and less robust of the litter. 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. In the wild syrian hamsters were basically all the same color.

Syrian hamsters to study the biology and genetics of sex linked yellow together with other coat color variants and confirmed that the mutation behaves similarly to what was originally reported robinson 1966 1972. 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. The syrian hamster is commonly called golden hamster referring to the wild colour. That s the dark eared white gene.

Some have been standardized by clubs for show purposes. Syrian hamsters can come in many different colorsincluding gray black yellow red or a mixture of several different colors. A self is the same colour all over the body. Here we use a comparative genomic approach to generate a molecular genetic map of the syrian hamster.

Welcome to hamster genetics. Hamster colours are known as either agouti or self. There is a common syrian color gene which masks the anopthalmic gene. The genes that determine that color were passed from generation to generation producing hamsters that were basically the same color golden.

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. Since this is again a pure white hamster any pattern such as the roan pattern is not visible. This color is called golden. Examples of agouti hamsters include the golden yellow cinnamon and grey.

The posts on here will be a little more in depth but hopefully still easily understood. An agouti hamster has cheek flashes and crescents where a self hamster does not.