Genetic Testing for Coat Color in Horses Reviewed

by: Stacey Oke, DVM, MSc
That "Ole gray mare" in the pasture was likely highly selected for during the domestication of horses and, according to some researchers, resembles her forefathers little in terms of coat coloring. While many wild animal species are colored relatively uniformly, our domestic horse stock show "a broad variety of coat color patterns," wrote animal geneticists ...