Talk:Labrador Retriever coat colour genetics

Review of article
Article was tagged for merge. Upon review, article needs a lot of cleanup and some rewriting, but seems fundamentally sound in its basis and is fixed up as a separate article (good focus, valid encyclopedic self-contained topic, etc). It still needs a lot of work done on it.

There is a lot of content at Labrador Retriever on colouring and genetics which should be copied into this one and expanded upon.

FT2 (Talk 05:05, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

There is a lot of information on studies to be looked into, there are a few spelling errors that can be fixed, looking into the other colors of labs and how those are created. Anderson.2207 (talk) 01:28, 1 October 2014 (UTC)anderson.2207

White Labradors
Can an explanation of the genetics of white (not albino) labradors be added by someone in the know? Stub Mandrel (talk) 12:18, 22 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Not without violating Wikipedia policies. The reason this article exists at all is the focus in genetics texts on black/chocolate/yellow, and the focus among kennel club publications on whether the dilute phenotypes are 'legit' as opposed to an indication of impurity.  Even then the existing article goes beyond available reliable sourcing a little, and potentially should be pared back.  If you want such white labs covered, then you will need a reliable source that addresses their genetics and I know of no such source.  In most cases they appear simply to be really light yellow labs - a yellow that is not depositing much pheomelanin in their coat (although in a population as large and inbred as labs, there may also be white labs that arise due to random mutations similar to those seen in the white tiger or the white lion). The problem is that Wikipedia editors are prohibited from doing their own speculation, even well-informed speculation, nor are they to take material from non-reliable sources such as breeders' web pages.  No source, no content.  The other question is the degree to which an article should cover every minor possibility.  Wikipedia has a policy WP:UNDUE WP:PROPORTION that indicates we should give a similar level of coverage to that given in secondary sources on the question, so if articles and accounts of lab coat color usually do not mention the white, neither should we. Agricolae (talk) 14:23, 22 July 2017 (UTC)