The agouti gene also plays a key role ... Additionally, dilution genes can soften the coat's colors and pattern lines, ...

The mice are Agouti Viable Yellow, naturally occurring mutants, which, though genetically identical, have coats that vary in color—a phenomenon that researchers have long studied as an example of ...

The coat of the traditional tabby ... The ticked tabbies do possess a more solid color because they possess agouti hairs—their fur is striped with varying colors. This produces the ticked ...

For instance, in normal, healthy mice, the agouti genes are kept in the "off" position by the epigenome, which attaches methyl groups to the corresponding regions of DNA, resulting in the DNA's ...