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I read somewhere that liver points on a red poodle are considered a 'fault.' However, from what I've seen of the genetics, liver vs. black seems to be arbitrary. In fact, liver points could make more sense because it's recessive, so if you have two liver-point parents, you know that all of the pups will have liver points as well.
Is it because you don't want to breed red poodles to brown poodles, and liver points demonstrate that the dog has brown in its background? And why not brown dogs? The eumelanin of the dog doesn't seem (so far from what I've read on the genetics sites) to have much to do with the phaeomelanin (the red) of the dog, since the phaeomelanin is only expressed in the coat.
I also read something about the genetic diversity, or lack thereof, of the american (not the european) lines of the black poodles, due to a very popular stud dog back in the thirties. If one of the goals of red poodle breeding is to increase the genetic diversity (lower the COI) of the color, isn't it at cross-purposes to breed to another color that lacks diversity? Within a generation or two of this strategy, wouldn't you have the same amount (or more) of undesirable alleles in the population?
Okay, I'm sleepy. I might need to review this post, to perhaps find my own logical errors. Thanks for any feedback!
Is it because you don't want to breed red poodles to brown poodles, and liver points demonstrate that the dog has brown in its background? And why not brown dogs? The eumelanin of the dog doesn't seem (so far from what I've read on the genetics sites) to have much to do with the phaeomelanin (the red) of the dog, since the phaeomelanin is only expressed in the coat.
I also read something about the genetic diversity, or lack thereof, of the american (not the european) lines of the black poodles, due to a very popular stud dog back in the thirties. If one of the goals of red poodle breeding is to increase the genetic diversity (lower the COI) of the color, isn't it at cross-purposes to breed to another color that lacks diversity? Within a generation or two of this strategy, wouldn't you have the same amount (or more) of undesirable alleles in the population?
Okay, I'm sleepy. I might need to review this post, to perhaps find my own logical errors. Thanks for any feedback!