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The most common homozygous recessive coloring in horses is which color?
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∙ 13y ago
The only true color genes are black (E), which is dominant, and red (e) which is recessive.
Dilution genes create a majority of the other colors:
Cream (Cr) is incomplete dominant -- Palominos, Buckskins, Cremellos
Dun (D) is dominant
Champagne (Ch) is dominant
Silver (Z) is dominant
Roan (R) is dominant
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoChestnut.
Explanation: Horses produce two pigments - eumelanin (responsible for black and dark brown colours) and phaeomelanin (responsible for reds and golds.)
If a horse has the E gene, which is dominant, it is able to produce eumelanin. So the genotype EE or Ee will be black (no agouti gene) or bay (if the horse has the agouti gene to restrict the black colour to the points). It could also be another colour modified from black or bay - such as buckskin, perlino, dun or grey, among many others.
If the horse has no E gene, but is ee it cannot produce eumelanin, and is red - chestnut - or a chestnut derivative like palomino.
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∙ 13y agoThe most common homozygous recessive coloring in horses is Chestnut.
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