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Recessive Black (Coat colour A-Locus Dog)
The dog is black all over the body, the hairs are not bicoloured (brown/black) as in the other agouti genes. This colouration is caused by the recessive a allele of the Agouti locus.
Appearance
Recessive black
The dog is black all over the body, the hairs are not bicoloured (brown/black) as in the other agouti genes.
Recessive black and dominant black do not differ phenotypically.
The colour occurs, for example, in the German Shepherd Dog breed.