A chestnut Morgan horse that carries the Silver mutation. This particular individual (Amanda's Suzie Q) indicate that the Silver mutation in horses has little or no effect on pheomelanin (as mane does not seem to be diluted) (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Horse_coat_colors" title="Horse coat colors">Horse coat colors</a>: <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Horse_coat_colors#Silver_dapple,_Windfarben" title="Horse coat colors">Silver dapple gene</a>)
Photo: Anthony Domire JR.
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Emma Brunberg, Leif Andersson, Gus Cothran, Kaj Sandberg, Sofia Mikko und Gabriella Lindgren: <i>A missense mutation in PMEL17 is associated with the Silver coat color in the horse.</i> BMC Genet. 2006; 7: 46. Published online 2006 October 9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2156-7-46, Published here: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1617113">http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1617113</a> as CC2.0