The merle markings often fade with age, and a Sable Merle may become indistinguishable from a Sable in time. These collies carry no tricolor gene, and can only produce White collies are the rarest of the breed. Now X with a PS or pure sable mom and a blue merle dad looks possible as the puppies are mostly shades of sable and sable merle. Contrary to what some mistakenly believe, harlequin patterned Collies are not defective, and no additional health problems have been associated with the pattern. Your fur-iend,Sam . WM..WHITE MERLE. Whoafascinating info! These are the offspring that may be produced by combining the the following sires and dams: We've seen the charts before. A sables coloring often darkens with each coat. The merle gene has exactly the same effect on a collie with two brown genes, turning some parts of a brown coat lighter brown by allowing less color to come through. PS + tS = (1) PS / (1) tStS + tri = (1) tS / (1) tri, BM + tS = (1) tS / (1) BM / (1) tSM / (1) tri, SM + tri = (1) tSM / (1) BM / (1) tS / (1) tri, tSM + tS = (2) tS / (2) tSM / (1) BM / (1) tri / (1) PSM / (1) PS, tSM + PS = (1) PS / (1) PSM / (1) tS / (1) tSM, Wf + Wf = (1) white / (2) Wf / (1) non Wf, WfBM + white,tri head = (1) white, BM head / (1) white, tri head / (1) Wf BM / (1) Wf tri, Original Article Was By Dot Gerth - I modified with it with new info by Dr. Leigh Anne Clark and Susan Murphy (2018), *We do offer a Lifetime Free Replacement Puppy, from one of our future litters, if the puppy is kept on Life's Abundance Pet Food (. A Sable Merle can also have blue eyes a sure indicator of the merle gene. I think that you can do with a few pics to drive the message home a little bit, but instead of that,this is fantastic blog. markings. A sable that inherits a single tri-color recessive gene is called a tri-factored sable. With the same color pattern as the Tri-Color, the merle dilution gene acts upon only the black coat, changing it to a distinctive blue/grey modeled pattern with varying black splotches. She had sables and tris all with broken patterns on the body. While it can be challenging to recognize a rough Collie from a Smooth Collie at birth, their colors are apparent, and a Collie puppys markings really will not change much through life. However, these normal greys when bred reproduce their grey color. These collies carry the tricolor gene alone with the sable I don't think I've ever seen an all white collie and I usually don't see many smooth coated collies in our area, but they're all beautiful. Rusty, muddy, steely, maltese, or harlequin. Then again they're still only ten days old so we have weeks before we get any real idea. if you breed two roughs together the breeding will only produce roughs. Tricolor collies are a mix of black, white and brown, with black as the main and white and brown covering the legs, chest, stomach and face. Did you make this website yourself or did you hire someone to do it for you?Plz respond as I'm looking to create my own blog and would like to know where u got this from. There is no merle gene in collies. The merle markings often fade with age, and a Sable Merle may become indistinguishable from a Sable in time. The sable is so pretty! I only learned about the rough and smooth coats when I started reading your blog. When you next look at a blue merle Collie, look at the spots of black and grey on its body which give it its beautiful coat and think that you are literally looking at mutations. This blog looks exactly like my old one!It's on a totally different subject but it has pretty much the same layout and design. Regards. A visually impressive, predominantly black coat with tan markings on the face and legs. Before you can swim, you have to get your paws wet! The same SINE/poly(A) genetic information that randomly puts merling on these collies also allows for the following: both eyes brown, both eyes blue, one eye of each color, partial blue & brown in one or both eyes and blue flecks in brown eyes. Wow, just wow! While the AKC classifies the Sable Merle as a Sable, breeders recognize it as a separate color and breed it accordingly. The AKC Standard gives no preference between the colors, but the desire is for bright, rich coloring, regardless of the color pattern. Though recognized by the American and UK Kennel Clubs as an official collie coat, merle is, nevertheless, uncommon in collies. Therefore, if a collie inherits a dominant brown gene from each parent, he/she is a pure for sable (homozygous for brown). However, many sable merles inherit blue, or blue flecked eyesa sure sign of a merle. b. non wf..NON WHITE FACTORED. Very interesting. . There is no color gene in collies for blue coat color only for black coat and brown coat. Monroe, Wisconsin, 53566, Kennel The Official Collie Standard recognizes four basic Collie colors; however, there can be considerable visual variations in each. In the U.S. rough and smooth collies are allowed to be bred together, but are judged separately at dog shows. These Merle Variations are AKC Registered as Blue Merle, according to a recent vote by the Collie Club Of America in August 2018. White covers the chest and most of the legs. Maybe a plaid collie. The tricolor gene is present in conjunction with the sable and merle gene. A light sable merle, with no tricolor gene. Both the dark grey and white ice harlequin colors commonly seen are variations away from the ideal. The resulting collie is still a sable. Th For our second review, we were sent this fun game created by Outward Hound from the awesome folks at Chewy.com . Rather, merling results from diluted black alleles and can be accomplished only by breeding merle or tricolor collies. Please leave us a comment on one of our recent posts so we know you were here! Stirling Collies is a MN Licensed AKC Collie Breeder of Smooth and Rough Coats - All Colors, even the RARE Blue Merle, often called a Maltese, or Gray Collie, not to be confused with a Gray Collie Syndrome Collie. It is not the same gene that produces harlequin coats in Great Danes. of the resulting POSSIBLE progeny are factual, but not necessarily a POSITIVE end result of each breeding as Natures whimsies cannot be computer programmed due to the Laws of Chance. The sable color is considered the traditional collie coat and is the dominant color combination for the breed. In any case I'll be subscribing to your rss feed and I hope you write again soon! I have always disagreed. I asked for a recheck! I'm sure I've mentioned that I've always loved Collies, and here in my corner of Virginia, we just don't see very many. sable offspring. Many breeds of dogs have a variety of coat colors and types. I had no idea - And it makes sense that there is (of course) so much to think about and consider when breeding Collies, which is why it's best left to the experts and people like you who love and are devoted to the breed. This explains why collies who receive a copy of the merle gene from each parent are double or homozygous merles that may have varying degrees of vision and auditory abnormalities. Whatever the coat, a collie makes an excellent companion for active families and children. In Collies, the brown gene is dominant. There are two (2) alleles of one white spotting gene in collies; one is fixed (Irish pattern) and one segregates (piebald). The color pattern is similar to the Doberman, but with the distinct white Collie collar, legs, and tail tip. However, SINE alone will not cause the collie in question to present visually as a merle. If you bred two pure-for-smooth collies together, you would end up with only smooth collies in the litter. This piebald allele segregates in collies, meaning that some collies have no copies, some have one copy and some have two copies. Irish spotting is characterized by modest white spotting and is responsible for white collars, belly coat, legs & feet, and tail tip. Let me try it out. A less common but highly desired variation is a straw or light cream-colored sable. http://www.erbordercollies.com/36259.html, And a dash of Aussiehttp://www.ashgi.org/color/. Because we are allowed to breed these two varieties together, we have more dogs to choose from, and thus we have more genetic diversity. 2) To see the best version of our blog, with the best quality pictures, click on "view web version" at the bottom of the page. ha ha ok bye. White is the rarest color in the Collie breed. What was a controversial color in years past may be the most beautiful of all Collie colors. Because of this, Collie breeders are generally not advised to intentionally breed two merles. Hmm, we wonder if Dr. Wow! One copy of the allele produces white factored but otherwise solid colored collies. White coat in collies and shelties according to this new study is probably caused by alleles for piebald. The black and brown gene is recessive to the sable gene, meaning that a puppy must inherit this recessive gene from both parents to be born tricolor. b. tS..TRIFACTORED SABLE. a. wf..WHITE FACTORED. http://www.colliesonline.com/may2009/coat-of-many-colors.php https://www.colliehealth.org/Summer_2014_Newsletter.pdf (see page 11). Thanks for sharing this info! Copyright Act of 1976, Title 17 of the United States Code, or other applicable laws. A dominant dilution gene which combined with sable or tri A less frequent variation than solid merle is a marbled merle. Sable and white collies with the merle gene, the sable merle comes in pure for sable and tri factored sable. Black collies with white and tan markings on sides of muzzle, above eyes, sides of checks, chest and inner margins of legs. An excellent read. Dr. Clark and her colleagues found and mapped the harlequin gene in Danes a number of years ago. She was bred only once to another tri rough and had 6 tri color rough puppies. recognizes four basic Collie colors; however, there can be considerable visual variations in each. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have truly enjoyed browsing your blog posts. If you are already viewing the web version, it will show "View mobile version" which is lower quality but is more mobile phone friendly. PS..PURE SABLE. When puppies many look much like pure sables, and almost all the developing hair in the first coat is brown. 2022 Stirling Collies - All Rights Reserved. So this clone of skin cells, with normal melanosomes, loaded with black pigment, will produce a spot of hair that is black or grey producing a blue merle. I know a lot about Poodle genetics but little about other dogs. The merle gene is still there in those spots; it has just been turned back on in them, by the second mutation decreasing the string of As. A White Merle can have hearing and vision impairment (separate from Collie Eye Anomaly or Progressive Retinal Atrophy). I could spend We have talked about how genes determine the health of a collie, and now I want to talk about how they also determine a collies appearance. The two base color genes in collies are brown (sable) and black (tri color). Dr. Vaughan explains the process that delivers color to a collies coat: Specialized skin cells produce pigments called melanins that come in black or brown. For more information on Collie coat colors and variation, please read this article from the Collie Health Foundation. Merles have the SINE needed to help create merling. MITF is name of the gene for both. This is not true of white merles carrying the PS genes, or the tS genes when bred to a tri. She believes harlequin in some collies results from a change in the DNA within or close to the merle gene. In Danes the harlequin is predominantly a white dog with black torn patches. We adopted her from a farm around the corner. Of course, when a collie has one brown color gene and one black color gene, it is still a sable, just a darker brown one. (Diane Stirling - Working Collie Breeder in Minnesota). The Versatile Collie - Herding with your Collie. Part of the reason white collies are rare may be that some breeders originally labeled them as defective, their washed-out coats and pale blue eyes seen as undesirable. Tricolor coats are not exactly uncommon, but are far less common than the traditional sable. 1. hello collies its dennis the vizsla dog hay yoo guys shoor do come in a luvly varietee of kotes and kolors!!! Piebald causes limited to extensive white spotting. A puppy inherits one color gene from each parent. Body spots may occur. sable collies carrying the tricolor gene along with the AKC Rough Collie Breeder. Dogs feature in starring roles in many movies and TV shows, and they are also the main characters in many works of fiction. Bookmarked.Please additionally consult with my website =). I will make certain to bookmark your blog and definitely will come back in the foreseeable future.I want to encourage continue your great writing, have a nice morning! DEFECTIVE WHITES, resulting from the combination of two merled parents. However, when each parent contributes a merle gene to offspring, problems arise. The White Collie will have a normally marked head, but most of the body will be white. Colored dogs with a lot of white on their neck, tail tip and Bluish gray coat with black splotching and white Research published 4 months ago by Korberg, et al sheds new light on white coats in a number of breeds, including collies. This process continues throughout the life of the dog, and with each fresh coat may alter the amount of pigment. Not strictly on topic, but good white coat information anyway. While the reports main themes are DMS genetics and genome mapping, a side product of the research, was enlightening. S..SABLE, dominant over tricolor. I'm new to the blog world but I'm trying to get started and set up my own. Collies are known for their sweet expressions and beautiful coats. Just a smiling visitor here to share the love (:, btw great design. She is a sable because her hairs are tipped. parents. However, as the dog ages, some black melanosomes are put into the growing hair strands, so the coat develops a deepening dark appearance. Unlike the collies two base color genes, the merle gene is not a color gene; in fact, it produces no pigment at all. Harlequin is not a color gene but rather a coat pattern. Sable spotted collies. The AKC Standard gives no preference between the colors, but the desire is for bright, rich coloring, regardless of the color pattern. it is interesting to find out more about the dna and the genes and very important for breeders. While some colors and markings may appear similar to those found in other dog breeds, they really are unique to the Collie. Usually a clear shade of straw, or orange red without dark masking or fringes. Two copies create a color headed white. Occasionally, some born white also are born blind and/or deaf, though some gain sight and hearing as they become adults. For Wiggy, now age 14, the findings are moot but startling. Today we are sharing our second guest post, in our new series, The Versatile Collie. Thanks for one's marvelous posting! a. Normal blue merle littermates to a normal grey have no more chance of producing normal greys than any other blue merle. However, grey is not a color recognized in the Collie Standard; therefore, breeding collies with this mutation is undesirable. Blue merles have the same tan markings on the face as the Tri-Color and the distinct white collar, legs, and tail tip. Much love from our collies to yours! She is pretty and sweet instantly my fav out of my collies. The white color is not recognized in the European standard. I had no idea. XII and XIV look possible, take the tri color out of the puppy equation. Collies with longer poly(A) tails present as merles, but the tail length controls the degree of merling and is responsible for the random degree of mottling as well as the randomness of eye color. Two pure sable parents always will bear sable puppies. So the presence of the SINE element is necessary but not sufficient to generate the merle phenotype; a poly(A) tail in the element is also required. You appear to know a lot about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. Armed with new research information to read suggested to me by my friend Dr. Leigh Anne Clark, well be doing double duty in this article. PSM..PURE SABLE MERLE. The color patterns are identical, regardless if they occur in a rough coat or smooth coat variety. Hello are using Wordpress for your blog platform? White coat color in all dogs, including color headed white collies, is currently under investigation. If you breed a rough and a smooth together, you can have both rough and smooth puppies in the litter. 10196 N Pine Square Rd. 5) We love to hear from our readers, so please leave a comment on our posts. Colored dogs usually with large white frill, heavy white tail tip, possibly a body splash of white hairs and white extending upward from hind feet over stifle to meet the white under body. . One thing Flip has and a couple of the puppies too is the white spot on the hip, white factoring according to the color chart. Use tab to navigate through the menu items. 416 N 12th Ave. kind of us like vizslas we come in enny kolor yoo want as long as its red!!! However they are getting fuzzy and I have a feeling our quiet days are numbered. If you breed a sable and a tricolor, you will produce both tricolor puppies and sable puppies that are. The tricolor is predominantly black, with white and tan markings. For simplification, the following letters represent colors. Sable headed white, photo courtesy of Darlene Kerr, Rough blue merle, photo courtesy of Jennifer Laik. Typically, they are all white except for their heads and sparse patches, which are either sable or tricolor. The result is that as the body of a tricolor (with merle) puppy develops, (first as an embryo, and later, after birth) with clones of skin cells with mutations in the merle gene DNA, reversing the merle mutation allowing normal melanosomes to be made again. Rough Coat Collies and Smooth Coat Collies, The four basic coat colors in collies are sable, tricolor, blue merle and white. Columella, Roman agriculture authority, wrote in the first century AD that shepherds preferred a white sheep dog because it is unlike a wild beast, and sometimes a plain means of distinction is required in the dogs when one is driving off wolves in the obscurity of early morning or even at dusk. This 2,000 year old observation counters the belief that white dogs dont make good herding candidates because they are the same color as most sheep, and so do not get respect from the stock. One mutation is canceling the effect of another. No other harlequin dogs outside of the Dane breed have this same mutation. What was a controversial color in years past may be the most beautiful of all Collie colors. I really like what you guys tend to be up too.Such clever work and exposure! I came that they may have Life, and have it Abundantly. If on the other hand, a recessive black gene is contributed by each parent, the collie will be a tri-color (homozygous for black). I'll certainly be back. We could have a link exchange arrangement between us. white extending upward from their hind feet. In testing the DNA from several different normal grays, she discovered that these Collies are actually blue merles with an additional mutation that eliminates the visible spots and produces a nearly solid grey coat. 4)To see older posts, when you get to the bottom of the page click on "older posts.". But I thought this was so interesting to read about them. They are almost white in appearance and may or may not have a few merling spots. The length of the tail controls the degree of merling seen in a collie. The finest blue coats are a clear, crystal blue color. Fromhttp://www.crowscollies.com/contactus.htm. Thanks for brining back those fun memories by illustrating it with collies :), This is so interesting. This darkening phenomenon is called epistasis (an interaction between genes). A collie with little or no poly(A) will present as a cryptic (a merle who is not physically distinguishable as such or who mainly looks tri-color or sable with only slight hints of merling). The brown genes phenotype (appearance) is expressed, so it is epistatic while the suppressed black gene is hypostatic, and simply darkens the brown. A blue headed white is just as sound and normal a collie as the tri, or sable headed white. If breeders do not want to propagate this color, they should not breed normal greys. These sables are generally darker in color. ALL NORMAL EYED, NON-CARRIER FOR PRA and Normal Eyed for CEA, The ABCs Of Collie Coat Color Inheritance. Thus, we shall eliminate the rarer combinations as well as genetic technicalities. Redefining Excellence. Do you require any coding knowledge to make your own blog?Any help would be greatly appreciated! No tricolor gene is present in their makeup. Usually, (but not always), a dark orange to a very dark mahogany in color with dark masking and fringes. These collies are the result of a cross between either two white parents or white factored parents. many thanks. The Collie Health Foundations mission is to fund research medical projects that will benefit the future health of the Collie, and to educate the public and Collie breeders about health issues. genes, produces merled collies. Merles, both blue (pure for black) and sable (pure for sable or mahogany sable), have random chances at pigmentation in eye color. Usually recognized by their luxuriant golden coats and soft white chests, collies actually come in four recognized color combinations, some more rare than others. head. Starting on page 103 of the Bulletins June issue youll find a report covering Dr. Clark and her colleagues mapping of the collie genome and discoveries about the genetics of autoimmune diseases such as dermatomyositis (DMS). We owe it to our collies to explore and understand what science tells us so that we can eventually view and appreciate the completed picture. Copyright 2022 Leaf Group Ltd. / Leaf Group Media, All Rights Reserved. At that time, Dr. Clark et.al had mapped the merle gene in all breeds adding significantly to knowledge of merle genetics. White Merle: A Collie who inherits a merle gene from both parents is referred to as a White Merle (also, double merle, double dilute, or homozygous merle). They all are! Because the gene for the rough coat is. Copyright 1986 - 2022 | Collie Health Foundation | All Rights Reserved | Designed by, Request Test Codes For Optimal Selection panel, http://www.colliesonline.com/may2009/coat-of-manycolors.php, http://www.colliesonline.com/may2009/coat-of-many-colors.php, https://www.colliehealth.org/Summer_2014_Newsletter.pdf, Length Variations within the Merle Retrospansposon. In collies and shelties a harlequin will usually have a white background with black patches as well, but may also have merling and tan points. , tri or blue merle markings. However, White remains the rarest color in the breed, and high-quality Whites are extremely prized. Collies have two varieties of coats, the rough and smooth coats. These collies inherit the dominant dilution gene (M) from both parents. If all the melanosomes that a growing hair strand receives contain black melanin, the hair strand itself will be black, as in the black areas of a tricolor collie. :). If you bred two rough-factored smooth collies together, you could end up with both rough and smooth puppies in litter. Can't say if Flip would count for trifactored sable or blue merle in the IX but those results look suspiciously close to our pups too. It turns out that mutations occur in this string of AS quite often as cells divide, decreasing the length of the stretch of As. Usually, a darker sable color than the PSM with dark brown merling, which quite frequently is still visible at maturity. Its like you read my mind! Recessive to sable, tricolors have black coats with white In some cases color and color modifier genes, as well as, color pattern genes are influential because of their proximity to other genes on strands of DNA and affect these close neighbor genes for good or ill. The subject of harlequin coat pattern in blue merle collies and shelties has been an interest of Dr. Clarks for several years. Coat color is also dependent on dominant and recessive genes. from straw to dark mahogany. Thanks for the well researched information. The white gene is recessive, requiring it to inherit it from both parents. The Sable Merle will typically have a lighter sable coat color, and faint modeling, merling, or speckling may be visible. Harlequin in Danes is located on a separate chromosome than the merle gene. A collies coat is determined by his or her genes. The merle gene turns some parts of a black coat to grey by not allowing the black color to come through completely. These collies have a predominantly white body, with a colored While some colors and markings may appear similar to those found in other dog breeds, they really are unique to the Collie. The resulting offspring will all be normal merles. Some collies inherit a brown gene from one parent and a black one from the other making them tri-factored sables (heterozygous genetically although still brown in appearance). 2. tSM..TRIFACTORED SABLE MERLE. I bought a 5 year sable headed white 2 months ago, her body and tail is pure white. Kathy V. Moll, Deep River Collies. The percentage ratios (1:1, 1:2:1, etc.) 2022 Stirling Collies - All Rights Reserved.You, the User, acknowledge that all content included on this Site, including the information, data, software, photographs, graphs, video, typefaces, graphics, music, sounds, images, illustrations, maps, designs, icons, written and other material (collectively, "Content") and the arrangement and compilation of the Content are intellectual property and copyrighted works of StirlingCollies.com and Diane Stirling. Loved reading about the coat colors, but couldn't resist adding some humor.Dog Speed,Sherman and Gemini. 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