Right that makes sense I think, thanks Souffle (apologies for making the thread drift a bit Raul-7 but he's such a striking hamsters and I've just been reading about creams and bands).
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Originally Posted by souffle
He also has long hair which is another recessive so he is at least eeBabalhlh.
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Is there a particular order that all the genes present should be written in?
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Originally Posted by babyboos
One of the curiosities with Cream is this could be a Black hamster but Cream masks ( is epistatic to) Black so to outward appearance phenotype he is a Cream but genetically his genotype could be more Black - do you see why we love hamsters!!!
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Just when I thought I was getting it
...does this mean that any cream hamster could have been black but that the cream gene stops it (or might stop it, if cream is recessive)?
Seriously though, it's an incredibly interesting subject that I suspect is going to occupy my thinking - what I think I might do is, when I see a hamster who's colouring grabs my interest, go off and look up what genes are responsible, and whether they are dominant/recessive etc. That way it might start to stick in my mind.