Post by nekuprocrast on Feb 18, 2011 17:55:01 GMT 11
The Colors of Pet Hedgehogs
Introduction:
Providing names for the colors of pet African hedgehogs has some fundamental complications. For instance, many breeders call the same colors by different names: sometimes clustering multiple standards under one name. The greatest complication, however, is that the officially recognized color names as provided by the International Hedgehog Association (or IHA) do not correlate with the genetics of hedgehog colorations. It was, therefore, and unfortunately, necessary to reclassify the colors of hedgehogs in order to explain their genetics coherently.
Due to this predicament, some of the color names presented on this page will likely be unfamiliar to many hedgehog breeders: they were chosen based on phenotypic homology and common usage from a set of well studied animals. The genetic symbols used are standardized coat color genetics commonly used in breeding programs of domestic mammals and were selected based on homologies determined during an independent study of hedgehog color genetics. While this gene set is still new in its application to hedgehogs, its accuracy has been supported through standard techniques and statistical analysis.
more about the colorful little mammals.
www.hedgehogcolors.com/
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