Inheritance of hair color in sables (Martes zibellina) of breed black sable

Abstract

On the example of a single population of sables of the Pushkin animal farm (Federal state unitary enterprise “Russkiy Sobol”), the heritability of the general coloring of their hairline was studied. In total, puppies of 1,561 female sables of the black sable breed were analyzed with a total score of 4,794 puppies. Based on the results of the study of various color forms of sables, the heritability coefficients (h2) of the black-brown color form were determined as 0.128; dark brown as 0.108 and chestnut as 0.078, which indicates a high selective sampling for darkening the overall color of the hairline in this population.