Syrian Hamster Colors Genetics

The syrian hamster is also most commonly know as the golden hamster as this is the original wild colour.

Syrian hamster colors genetics. Syrian hamsters have 22 pairs of chromosomes and some of the genes within those chromosomes determine what the hamster will look like. It is an unusual gene which is not simply either dominant or recessive. In the wild syrian hamsters were basically all the same color. Syrian mutations colour mutations dilution extreme dilute created pages for extreme dilute bec black black tortoiseshell golden rust and melanistic yellow.

The color of a syrian hamster s eyes and ears are usually determined by the color of their coat. But over the years a number of mutations appeared and now you can find a wide range of colours and coat types some being common and other rare. The main gene that fits this description in the syrian hamster is yellow to. X linked determinants of this pattern recognized by variegation in females but not in males have been described in the domestic cat as orange and in the syrian hamster as sex linked yellow sly but are curiously absent from other vertebrate species.

The syrian hamster is commonly called golden hamster referring to the wild colour. It is an unusual gene which is not simply either dominant or recessive. However over the years many different colours coat lengths patterns and coat types have now developed due to mutations. Syrian hamsters can come in many different colorsincluding gray black yellow red or a mixture of several different colors.

Beige produced by breeding a two hamsters with the rust and dark gray genes the beige color variety is often the smallest and less robust of the litter. The posts on here will be a little more in depth but hopefully still easily understood. On our instagram page i ve started a series of genetics posts that hopefully teach syrian hamster genetics in an way that is easily understood by everyone even without a background in genetics or biology. Some coat colors have several different eye and ear color combinations such as the cream variety which can have black red or ruby eyes.

One popular color is brown syrian hamsters. Some have been standardized by clubs for show purposes. Beige hamsters sometimes have a kinked tail. Chromosomes exist in sister like pairs.

Brown ranges over a broad color spectrum. If you have a syrian hamster that is blonde cinnamon lilac honey or fawn then these often have red eyes. How are genes passed from parents to hamster pups. This color is called golden.

Slowly adding onto the pages for basic mutations cinnamon rust dark grey black eyed cream silver grey yellow black and white a list on what genes require them. The genes that determine that color were passed from generation to generation producing hamsters that were basically the same color golden.