Talk:Dun gene

References?
Looks like a good article, but there is only 1 reference. It would be better if there were more.

--PEAR (talk) 09:51, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Parts of a horse's leg
Horses are unguligrade, so the first joint above the hoof is the the joint between the finger/toe and the palm/sole, the second joint is the ankle/wrist, the third joint is the knee/elbow, and the fourth is the hip/shoulder. It is a common error to misinterpret the homologies of the legs of unguligrades, mistaking the toe for the foot, for example, not realizing that unguligrades walk on the tips of their toes, and thus that the foot extends to the second joint. However, when correcting the figure caption, I did not know that a horse-specific nomenclature is used, in which "knee" is used in a specialized sense different from its usual signification. When discussing horses the horse-specific nomenclature should be used, and thus reversion of my edit back to knee was quite correct. MayerG 16:05, 2 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, it's a weirdness to call the carpus joint of a horse the "knee," when the analogous body part is the human wrist, actually, and you aren't the first to call a fetlock the "ankle" but there you have it.  See the chart at horse anatomy for more fun.  The patella of the horse is located at a point called the stifle, and the metatarsus, analogous to the human "ankle," is the horse's hock, midway down their hind leg.   Montanabw (talk) 18:13, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

New research
For updating: — Preceding unsigned comment added by Montanabw (talk • contribs) 08:46, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
 * http://horsetalk.co.nz/2015/12/22/dun-deal-scientists-unlock-colour-secrets-horse/#axzz3v3gEgr5a
 * http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3475.html