Craze Reference

TRAITS
-No Tail
-Partial Flopped Ears
-Messy/Curly Short Fur

HEALTH CONDITIONS
None Yet - Will gradually Develop Cancer as she ages.

GENETICS
Reverse Diluted Piebald Tweed Merle with Somatic Mutation
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++Piebald++
(Hereditary)
-The result of a loss of pigment acrossed the body leaving 'splotches' of color showing undernieth.

++Dilution++
(Hereditary) 
-A sort of lightening gene that both lightens + desaturates the color cells in the body making them a pastier, paler color.

++Tweed Merle++
(Hereditary)
-Merle is the result of a graying mutation that turns the black of the body gray, but sitll leaves patches/chunks of black sporatically spread acrossed the body.
-The term Tweed, refers to a special 'extended' version of merle, in which the merle represents as two different tones of color rather than one, aka partial graying in some places. Tweed merle is only obtainable by breeding 2 merles.

++Reversal Mutation++
(Partially Made Up/Hereditary)
-Reversal mutation DOES exist in some creatures, and is most commonly seen afflicting markings like Brindle and the like. The most evident case of such being a reverse brindle Horse.
However, thus far, there havn't been any true cases of it appearing in canines. BUT It's sexy nontheless so here we go.
-Reversal is the result of a typical mutation affecting the coat in the opposite way that it normally would. For instance, Brindling + Merle are both a result of a graying gene diluting/lightening cells of the coat. In a merle, it lightens all of the coat and leaves chucks of base visible. Where as in brindle, its so sporatic and extensive it only leaves stripes of base showing through.
Reversal instead, affects the opposite way. Instead of leaving holes untouched by the graying, it instead grays out the splotches/grays out so little of brindle that it creates white stripping.

On Craze, Reversal has affected the Tweed Merle marking, leaving the base coat darker than the two toned spots of merling. Even the Somatic Patches are affected but still appear darker than the rest due to, basically being, a different geno entirely. It is lighter than a merle spot would be on it's specific genotype.

++Somatic Mutation++
(Hereditary+NonHereditary?)
-The result of 'mutant' cells, such as the piebald dilution and merle above, except this mutation occurs AFTER the embryo is formed unlike the others.
Mutations that occur after the embryo is formed, such as Chimerism, are no hereditary. Although Chimerism is the result of two embryo fusing in the womb, Somatic looks similar.
It is the result of the mutation affecting the cells of color in the body, and resulting in a two toned based offspring. These patches will usually be two different base coats, whatever it's visible hereditary color is, and a recessive coloration. This will usually result in any markings atop the secondary color also being afflicted.
This is most commonly seen in Yellow Labs + Golden Retrievers, since the dogs recessively carry Black pigment(IE a yellow lab is actually just a black lab with a yellowing mutation), the Somatic mutation will activate the black pigment/override the yellow, in a cell of the dog resulting in a yellow puppy with black patches.

Somatic Mutation in of it'self is NOT hereditary, however if the Sex Organs are afflicted it can be in some ways. For instance, if a yellow lab is bred to a yellow lab it will produce all yellow lab puppies. However, if a Male with Somatic mutation has one black testicle and one yellow testicle, and is bred to a yellow, there is a slim chance that he will produce some black offspring due ot that black testicle containing the actively black base coat cells. The mutation it'self is typically not hereditary, just like Chimerism, Vitiligo, or Albinism.

Naturally, just like many other mutations such as Albinism and Vitiligo, Somatic Mutation comes with risk of Genetic ailments. Typically not directly caused by the mutation it'self, but rather whatever it is that caused the mutation to begin with. Vitiligo is typically the result of the autoimmune system attacking it'self and destroying it's ability to produce pigment in cells. Naturally, this means somone with vitiligo has problems with there immune system. Where as, Somatic Mutation is believed to be the result of physical damage to the embyro or cancerous cells, and as such, it is far likely for the offspring to retain some kind of damage or develop cancer later on in life.

Craze is a diluted liver merle. This means she is recessively black, but is inherently Liver/Brown. However, her Dilution gene caused her liver color to lighten/desaturate into the muttled cream that she is. The spots of Somatic mutation, however, active the recessive black, making those areas black, BUT the Dilution gene can still affect black, turning those 'black spots' a lighter/desaturated color as well. So, still darker than the rest, but still lighter than the original black.

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