Figure 1.
Examples of various types of coat color abnormalities seen in knockout mice. Mc1r knockout mice (A, left) have uniformly hypopigmented strawberry blonde coat color compared with wild type C57BL/6N (A, right) control mice. Mice with targeted deletion of the Dct gene have a brown-colored coat (B,B’, left) compared with wild type C57BL/6N (B,B’, right) control mice. Knockout mice with a white patch on the abdomen have been observed with variable penetrance. Just three of eight Endog knockout mice were found to have a white patch on the belly (C,C’), which may be sporadic, or may represent reduced penetrance related to the targeted deletion.