Golden Retriever Coat Color Genetics

Despite these dogs having 5 colors not all are officially recognized as a standard color by the american kennel club.

Golden retriever coat color genetics. With labrador retrievers three basic colorations from two different genes create a complicated punnet square. Let s break down these gorgeous color coats of the golden retriever. Golden retriever colors include. Genetics can be a tricky concept to grasp.

The outer ring of the color buttons shows the visible coat color with the small upper right circle showing the nose color black or liver. The heterozygous e e means that the puppies will not be red to yellow in color and the b b means that the puppies will be black instead of liver chocolate. Genetic diversity testing for golden retrievers overview the veterinary genetics laboratory vgl in collaboration with dr. Paw print genetics offers testing for common coat colors and traits.

But add in two more genes that determine the unrecognized labrador breed colors and you ve spun a web of possibilities. If you breed a chocolate lab which is e e and b b to a golden retriever which is e e and b b which is what the vast majority of goldens are the puppies will be e e and b b. If it is not b then it is b the recessive brown gene. Basic coat color genes.

As a matter of fact just the golden light golden and dark golden are official colors. The gene pair at site edetermines the ability to distribute dark pigment in the coat. Golden retrievers are all bb black pigment their red yellow colour results from the recessive gene pair ee at site e. Some genes have more than one mutation such as those genes involved in agouti and determining a brown coat color.

Pedersen and staff has developed a panel of short tandem repeat str markers that will determine genetic diversity across the genome and in the dog leukocyte antigen dla class i and ii regions. Entries in the table show the probabilities of producing various coat colors within a litter. The basics of dog genetics. The tests for those variants have been combined for simplicity in ordering.

There are two pairs of genes that determine the basic coat colors in dogs such as poodles labrador retrievers golden retrievers and doodles. Cream dark golden light golden red and of course the classic gold. All golden retriever colors. B is the dominant black gene.