Syrian Hamster Colors Genetics

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Syrian hamster colors genetics. Some have been standardized by clubs for show purposes. Changing this would make the animal less well adapted to its environment. Most mutations that are studied in hamsters affect coat colour type and pattern. The color of a syrian hamster s eyes and ears are usually determined by the color of their coat.

This color is called golden. If you have a syrian hamster that is blonde cinnamon lilac honey or fawn then these often have red eyes. In the wild syrian hamsters were basically all the same color. Syrian hamsters are excellent pets for people of all ages particularly children.

The syrian hamster is commonly called golden hamster referring to the wild colour. Animals doubly mutant for sly and nonagouti exhibit a sly phenotype. 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. Should your hamster not be of one of these colours it can still compete in.

Sex linked yellowin hamsters phenotype and genetics. Some coat colors have several different eye and ear color combinations such as the cream variety which can have black red or ruby eyes. Syrian hamsters have 22 pairs of chromosomes and some of the genes within those chromosomes determine what the hamster will look like. Mutations at a gene locus may cause something to be altered in the development of the characteristics controlled by that gene.

The posts on here will be a little more in depth but hopefully still easily understood. We also identify the molecular cause of recessively inherited black coat color in hamsters historically referred to as nonagouti as a cys115tyr mutation in the agouti gene. 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 original wild color of the hamster is golden brown hence their name as the golden hamster the most notable characteristic of the syrian hamster is its ability to store food in two cheek pouches.

Use the drop down menus on the link bar to go through the different. I set up this site on in order to create a nice place where people could come learn about hamster genetics learn the correct names and gene codes for a hamsters colours and also to record genetic abnormalities in hamsters such as chimerism and mosaicism. Syrian hamster colors and coats. I hope this site will be of use to the ethical hamster breeding community.

Commercial suppliers of syrian hamsters to research laboratories carry few if any coat color variants.