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Hotspots are locations where a marking is often located or concentrated. You do not need to fill all of a hotspot's range, or every hotspot with the marking, as long as some of the marking is present on a design. Yellow is generally where a marking is most concentrated, where red is least, that doesn't mean you can't fill that space or go outside of the hotspot area!
Ranges are a bit more specific, showing where a marking may be restricted to. While we have ranges, as long as a marking is generally in the range, or even slightly outside of that range it won't get corrections. Try to keep ranges in mind when designing.
Minimum or Min is the minimum area a marking should show up, there should be at least 1 min area filled with a marking. Max is the maximum area a marking can fill as a single copy or heterozygous allele, ex nSd. Dom is when you have 2 copies of a gene, such a SdSd, when this happens the ranges can often be extended farther or have special design rules or options you can choose from!
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Markings
Markings
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Unders is a marking that spans the ventral side of an algolope, usually seen on the furless areas of the neck, belly, and vent. Usually this color matches the coloration of the legs, though it can be a lighter or darker coloration of the base pelt. Unders is restricted to the 'Skin' layer of the file. Any designs or genos prior to 2018 may replace Unders with any other common marking when submitting for approval. Please note this in the Notes section of the form.
Special Marking Modifiers
'-' - Reversal Gene
Reversal is marked by a - after the gene code. This gene turns normally white or light markings dark, or vice versa where dark marks turn light.
't' - Tan
Markings with 't' or tan modifier add a rusty red or orange coloration to the marking. Often found on points, or merle+t.
'+' - Additional Color
The '+' gene adds an additional color to the marking, often found in merle, but may be present on other markings if carried.
“cchd” – Chinchilla
Chinchilla Dark, often turns the eyes dark grey-blue and causes a rusty tinge to the fur. When mixed with white marks often extends the white pattern past the usual ranges. Yellow pigments turn white.
"cchl' - Sable
Chinchilla light, sable reduces most yellow coloration to white like the cchd gene, but also gives the algo a shaded look and the eyes stay dark unlike cchd. Sable reduces black pigment, but typically leaves the head, legs, ears and tail a darker shade much like points. Algos with Sable often look darker brown than black. cchl is recessive to cchd, and two algos must both carry cchl to pass to offpspring.
"ej" - Brindle/Tri-color
The brindle gene, ej, produces a brindled pattern that can include black, blue, chocolate or lilac striping. Black tipping appears in patches similar to a calico cat with two copies.
One copy of ej shows as brindle stripes, while two copies, or ejej allows black patches as well.
"En/En" - Charlie
2 broken genes that cause the algo to be near entirely white with a few small spots of color, less than 10%. Charlie is created by two copies of the 'En' gene, or by breeding two broken Algos.
"En/en" - Broken
10-90% colored, causes the coat to be near entirely white and speckled with spots of base color.
"en/en" - Solid
The algo is normally colored and all markings show as described. en gene is acquired via breeding to select lines.
Common Genes - * denotes updated guide
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Common Genes - * denotes updated guide
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Stocking (nSto/StoSto/-) *
Belton (nBel/BelBel)*
Capped (nCap/CapCap) *
Mealy (nMl/MlMl) *
Bib (nBi/BiBi) *
Strike (nStr/StrStr)*
Fleck (FlFl/nFl) *
(HdHd/nHd/-) Hood*
Uncommon Genes
Uncommon Genes
Thick or thin stripes found along the entire body or partially, such as only on the hindquarters, shoulders, or tail. Usually darker than the base coat, Tiger stripes are more varied in thickness and can have hooks and floating stripes between sets. Tiger is nuance friendly, does not show mapping, but can fade out towards the underside.
The lightening of the undersides of the animal, often with a smooth or soft look, Pangare is soft edged or well blended and sits under all other markings.
Leopard causes a pattern of rosette spotting similar to that of the large cats its named for. These spots are always darker than the base pelt, and can range from a small area of the pelt, or cover it entirely. Leopard+ shows white markings and flank shading.
(ChCh/nCh) Cheetah
Dominant Cheetah often shows as markings similar to a King Cheetah, with thick, connected spots, and a much darker overall appearance to the pelt, recessive cheetah adds spotting similar to the animal, with small uneven edges circular patches, intermingled about the pelt.
✨ (nStt/SttStt) Stoat
Shield like marking on chest and lower neck. Soft or hard edges or mixed. Always has holes cut in marking that are circular or blotchy that show base coat. Pulls from natural accents slider or coat. May also be shades of gray or yellows.
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✨ (nMud/MudMud) Mudmark - general locations, can be blended, soft or hard edged, textured. Darker than base coat or using brown color from natural slider. Can have Gradient (2 colors total) or Nuance Gradient.
✨ (nIr/IrIr/Irti) Irish / Irish Ticked - White marking focused on the front half of an algo, similar to the canine marking. Irish can have hard or soft edged spots, may have mapping and can cover forelegs. Holes cut out of irish are circular and large.
May cause a small diamond or blaze on forehead and from top of head, does not cover nose bridge.
✨ (nSpl/SplSpl) Splash - White paint marking starting from the feet up. Can go over forelegs and cover most of face. May be rump heavy and cross over hips but not shoulders, back or neck. May have mapping and hard edge. Can not have holes and edges are relatively smooth and curved.
✨(nBlz/BlzBlz) Blizzard- speckle (white only) down from topside, can cover entire body, densely packed
Rare Genes
Rare Genes
(DrpDrp/nDrp) Droplet
Droplet is small drop shaped markings, often present on more than 50% of the animals body, and usually a darker, unsaturated version of the base color.
(DrpfDrpfd/nDrpfd) Droplet Fade
Droplet markings are faded or gradually fade into the coat instead of remaining solid and unbroken.
(PbPb/nPb/-) Piebald
White markings cover the natural color of the coat, often leaving asymmetrical spots or splotches. Min 50% cover, Max cover often leaves small patches on the face or rump, and with the ears unaffected. Skin is often pink in coloration where it overlaps the white, and if white touches the eyes, they often show as blue. Reverse Piebald turns the white to black.
All the normal base pigments are represented (Chocolate,Tan,Black, Lilac, Blue) but the undersides, inside ears, toes, rings of the eyes, chin and jaw are silver-white. The face, ears, legs, and chest also darken much like point. Sometimes the hindquarters are also darkened if both parents express the marking.
(SlSl/nSl) Seal
Seal lightens and grays out the coat, regardless of it's base color. Often the lips, nose, and tailtip are darkened. Faint spotting or blotches of black are usually accompanied with the gene, with dominant carries expression larger and more frequent markings.
New(OvOv/nOv/-) Overo
Overo is a white marking that starts on the sides of the animal and spreads out from the side. Overo does not cross the spine or back of the animal between the shoulders and the tail. At least one and often all four legs are regular colored. (No white) and the markings are often irregular, splashy and scattered. Overo produces the white bald face marking. Eyes are usually blue. OvOV is fatal and known as fatal white. Revese Overo turns the white marking to black.
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✨ (BlBl/nBl/-) Blanket
A white marking that covers the majority of the rump and back legs of an animal. Does not extend to the tail on single copy. Reverse Blanket turns the white to black.
(Dal/nDal/+) Dalmatian
Dalmatian lightens the base pelt of an animal, adding spotting either a few shades darker than the base pelt, or black. This marking can express itself in a multitude of ways, from just a few small spots, or large blotches. Dalmatian+ lightens the majority of the coat, leaving just a few dark spots or the base color showing.
(MrlMrl/nMrl/+) Merle and Merle+(+t)
Merle adds dark spots to the pelt, though in non-dilutes it is not expressed. nMrl spots are generally small and far spaced with one color, while MrlMrl carriers have larger and more prominent spotting, ften with two darker colors. Merle can be expressed in dilutes that do not show dilution, such as Silver, Creme, and Bay. nMrl+ and MrlMrl+ add an additional color to the spotting on the pelt. Algolope with Merle often have tan unders and face, and cheeks, denoted with the 't' or tan modifier, such as nMrl+t or nMrlt
✨(nSkel/SkelSkel) Skeleton
A white modifier gene, changes white markings to be vaguely skeleton shaped, or adds white patches that mimic bones.
nSb/SbSb - Sabino
White marking that is jagged and patchy, similar to sabino in horses. Can be extensive, minimal or hidden.
Tabby nTab/TabTab- Swirls and stripes like a tabbycat.
Super Rare
Oil
Inkspell
Galaxy
Mirage
Runemark
Biolum
Phantom
Iridescent
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