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A mosaic (dark-eyed intense—pink-eyed dilute) coat colour of the house mouse

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Two cases of mosaic (dark-eyed intense—pink-eyed dilute) pelage patterns are reported in the house mouse. The unusual colour was not inherited by descendants. A direct correlation between the mosaic pattern of the coat and the pattern of piebald white-spotting in this strain of mice was observed. Aberrant chromosome division in somatic tissue is suggested as an explanation of these mosaics.

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    Horace W. Feldman

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Observations reported in this paper were made in the Laboratory of Vertebrate Genetics, University of Michigan.

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Feldman, H.W. A mosaic (dark-eyed intense—pink-eyed dilute) coat colour of the house mouse. Journ. of Genetics 30, 383–388 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02982246

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