Thread: A question in deer genetics

Does anyone know of the genetic around colour determination in fallow.

I'm an idiot with genetics but if anyone here is genetically minded which are the dominant and recessive alleles for colour determination in fallow? Could there be a co dominant or incomplete dominant situation that explains colours that share characteristics of more than one typical colour variation? I’m interested to know for the simple fact that I love any knowledge regarding deer.

I know people would naturally think black is dominant being that it is visually darker but I've only ever seen one black fawn in a local population I hunt and its mother was menil and I've never seen a black buck there. It could be that he's alluded me and I've just never seen him but I don't know. "Common" would therefore have to be dominant but it's not like a dominant colour to be the common colour in most populations. Then you can look at fallow in Tasmania which are almost all black though occasionally there is a white or normal pop up but vary rarely a menil. So that would lead me to think that black is dominant.

White and menil showing up as rarely and inconsistently as they do would make me think it's maybe recessive.

Don't know, but if anyone does I'd love to hear!