The Importance of Full Pigment

If you base a breeding program on dominant factors and performance, theoretically your affected stock will be strong carriers of the performance genes that you desire. The interest in full pigmentation for me began, after first researching Melanocytes. These are the allelic frequencies that are responsible for the dark color or spotting of the affected animal..... In my research, I found it rather odd that where Self color (or total pigmentation) is concerned arctic breeds (except possibly the Samoyed) have an absence of incidents where the individual has a lack of white. To me this was a major concern, as the melanocyte blocks ultraviolet radiation.... Why then, I though, would a breed be absent of individuals, whom had evolved a total protection from ultraviolet breakdown. My thoughts immediately turned to the show world, long time poisoned of the canine evolutionary process. Early in the development of the Siberian Husky as a "new breed" the Irish markings and blue eyes were the rage of the show enthusiasts..... However striking the Irish makings may be, they can not be regarded as the definition of perfection within the coat of a dog meant to run for days on end in barren land, where there is little cover from the often blinding sun in arctic climates. There is also a high incidents of washed out colors, such as splashy reds, red pigmented whites, and dogs that have a steady decrease in pigment through the coarse of their lives.... There is far less frequency in breeding stock for the more dominant coat colors such as dogs exhibiting Self Coloration, Dark and Wild Agouties, Black Mask Sables, Sables, and Monochromatically colored dogs. If a line starts from generic roots and is out crossed to the fullest extent for maximum hetrosis, and then inbred only temporarily to concentrate these dominant genes and make them prepotent, to then be distributed to dogs expressing a similar phenotype. My hopes are that by pairing the presence of the ACE allele with more heterogynous genes, that the result will be, producing affected stock that more consistently than not, produces the desired genes, by removing the presence of inferior gene pairings.

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