D. Phillip Sponenberg & Rebecca Bellone 
Equine Color Genetics [EPUB ebook] 

Preface to the Fourth Edition xi
1 Introduction 7
2 Basic Dark Horse Colors: Bay, Chestnut, Black, and Brown 23
3 Modifications Affecting Most Colors 39
4 Dilutions of the Basic Dark Colors 7S
5 Overview of the Genetic Control of Horse Color 131
6 Patterns with Individually Distributed White Hairs 137
7 Nonsymmetric Patches of White: White Marks, Paints, and Pintos 165
8 Patterns with Symmetric White Patches: The Leopard Complex 211
Rebecca Bellone, Sheila Archer, and D. Phillip Sponenberg
9 Overview of Patterns Adding White 239
10 Horse Color and Horse Breeding 243
11 Peculiarities of Hair Growth 247
12 Donkey Color 2S1
13 Summary Tables 279
Bibliography 323
Index 335

The authors
D. Phillip Sponenberg, DVM, Ph D, is Professor of Pathology and Genetics in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
Rebecca Bellone, Ph D, is Associate Adjunct Professor in the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory and Department
of Population Health and Reproduction at the University of California-Davis in Davis, California, USA.