Meriones unguiculatus

Gerbil Colour Genetics

By Jörg Eberbeck

Copyright © 1997, 1998 by Jörg Eberbeck. - Updated: 30. May 1998



At the moment only the following table is available:

Genotype Colour Name
--C-efefG-P- schimmel, mould
--CCefefggPP black eyed white (BEW) / silver schimmel
--CCefefG-pp red eyed schimmel, sandy
--cbcbefef--PP black eyed white (BEW)
--chch----pp pink eyed white1 (PEW)
--chchE---P- dark tailed white (DTW)
A-C-E-G-P- golden agouti / white bellied agouti golden1
A-C-E-ggP- grey agouti / white bellied grey agouti1
A-CCE-G-pp argente golden1
A-CCE-ggpp ivory cream
A-CCeeG-P- sooty fawn1 / dark eyed honey (DEH) /
Algerian / golden fox
A-CCeeG-pp yellow fox
A-CCeeggP- polar fox
A-CCeeggpp apricot
A-CchE-G-pp argente cream1
A-CchE-ggpp ivory cream, light
A-cbcbE-G-P- colourpoint agouti
A-cbcbE-ggP- pearl1 / smoke / colourpoint grey agouti
[similar to polar fox]
A-cbchE-G-P- light colourpoint agouti
aaC-E-G-P- black1
aaC-E-ggP- slate1
aaCCE-G-pp lilac1
aaCCE-ggpp ruby eyed white1 (REW)
aaCCeeG-P- nutmeg
aaCCeeG-pp argente nutmeg
aaCCeeggP- silver nutmeg
aaCcbE-G-pp sapphire [in between lilac and dove]
aaCchE-G-pp dove1
aacbcbE-G-P- Burmese1
aacbcbE-ggP- colourpoint slate
aacbchE-G-P- Siamese1
Notes:
   1 These are names of show standards set up by the National Gerbil Society.

A great part of this table is based on informations by the Gerbil Genetics Group:
Vera Brückmann (Germany), Michael Mettler (Germany), Fred Petrij (The Netherlands), and Karin van Veen (The Netherlands)


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