In Australia, we have only 2 genes available to us on the d-locus — D (non-blue) and d (blue) — ‘d’ stands for a very generic “dilute”. Non-blue is dominant over blue, so to produce blue-based offspring, both parents need to either be or carry blue. Any mouse with a… Read more.
They say the eyes are the windows to the soul, and given how strongly some people seem to feel about a mouse’s eye colour, this applies to rodents as well. In my experience, show and breeder homes rarely have an eye colour preference — pink or black — but time… Read more.
When I first encountered Punnett squares in high school biology, I heard the word as “punnet” — as in, a punnet of strawberries. While this provides a memorable mental image (and both Punnetts and punnets are sort of square containers, right?), it’s not actually where the name comes from. Wikipedia… Read more.
Before you can really get your teeth into the myriad of wonderful mouse coat colours and types, you need to have a basic understanding of Mendelian inheritance. Gregor Mendel was a scientist from the 1800s who is considered to be the “father of modern genetics”. He based his theories on… Read more.