Dog Coat Patterns In addition to their beautiful colors, dogs can have coats that boast eye-catching patterns. Here are some of the coat patterns seen across the many dog breeds.

Dogs need mutations in two areas of the ASIP gene to get different coat patterns. Bannasch and colleagues renamed the phenotypes to better describe the variations: dominant yellow, shaded yellow, ...

Lighter coat colours – currently seen in hundreds of dog breeds and millions of dogs around the world – may have been advantageous to the extinct ancestor about 1.5 to two million years ago ...

Of course, any two dogs that breed can have offspring with a variety of these coat patterns, depending on the parents’ haplotypes. Jiff the collie, who has a shaded yellow phenotype.

More than 2000 dogs were administered the vaccine. Photo : K.R. Deepak Researchers have successfully uncovered the secret behind the inheritance of coat colour patterns in dogs.