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Equine coat color genetics

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Overall, this Wikipedia page covers all of the necessary information/bases for a very strong, informative, and easy to read article. With over 52 sources drawn from a variety of scholarly sources, the text, images, and “Alleles and effects” charts are all supported by these articles. Secondly, a less scientific Wikipedia article link for equine coat colors is linked to this article for those potentially unfamiliar with the basis of these colors. Also, nearly each coat color is supported with an image, which helps the reader better enforce the message of the text. While the intro is relatively extensive, I feel that the depth it goes into is needed to fully understand the purpose of the article. Also, the extensiveness of the page is actually remarkable. Nearly every coat color is featured, and the reason for the particular genetic make up of the phenotype is explained. The page also has a “Terminology” and “Notation” sections, which are very useful in this case as some of the terms used later in the article are defined early in the article. Also, the “Melanin” and “Extension” sections describe and provide the genetic factors that go into the phenotypic expression of the coat colors. In conclusion, this is an extremely well written, organized, and cited article; which I thoroughly enjoyed reading.