Understanding Merle for Breeders
I wrote this downloadable article especially to help breeders understand the genetics of Merle.
This 7 page consenced article covers -
- History of the Merle Mutation
- Documented Historically Merle Breeds/Historically Non-Merle Breeds
- Breed ID Testing
- History of Merle Testing
- The "langevin et al" Scale of Merle
- Mosaicism
- Defining Mc - Cryptic Merle 200 - 230 bp
- "Homozygous Merle" vs "Double Merle"
- Safe and Risky Merle Allele Combinations
- Hidden/Masked Merle
- "Hidden" vs "Non-Expressing"
- Breeding Merle x Piebald
