True white is said to be the rarest horse colour. These horses are born white, unlike most greys, and have a white (unpigmented) coat on pink skin. However, this may be because it is the rarest ...

The Emperor's new coats: History of horse coat colors Date: December 7, 2016 Source: Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FVB) Summary: Human preferences for horse coat colours have changed greatly over ...

The coat colour of horses is determined by a complex interplay of genetic factors that dictate not only the base pigmentation but also the elaborate patterns and white spotting phenotypes observed ...

In 2015, he identified that Ellert was closely related to the “dominant white” gene – and characterized the Icelandic horse as the first of its kind with the coat color allele: W21 (or ...

In the new study, researchers wanted to look at how horses' coat color might have changed with domestication. So they analyzed the DNA of two horses: One that died 4,400 years ago, and another ...

According to the study, when a "slow-graying horse has reached an age of about 15 years, the coat color may turn into a dappled steel or bluish gray shade." "I was amazed by the very strong ...