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Skin colour (MC1R) Jewelled Lizard

peer reviewedMc1r

Information presented here was moved from OMIA:001199-8523 : Coat colour, extension in Lacerta [20/09/2023]. Lacerta lepida is a synonym for Timon lepidus.

Offspring odds

No numbers for this one.

No inheritance mode has been recorded for Skin colour (MC1R), so no offspring odds are given. Guessing one would be worse than saying nothing: a breeder would plan a season on it.

What this rests on

A peer-reviewed paper identifies the variant behind this morph in the gene Mc1r.

  • Association of Mc1r variants with ecologically relevant phenotypes in the European ocellated lizard, Lacerta lepida.J Evol Biol 2011

Entry in Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals