Flaxen is a genetic trait in which the mane and tail of chestnut-colored horses are noticeably lighter than the body coat color, often a golden blonde...

Uses include: Flaxen, a variant of the blonde human hair color Flaxen gene, a gene that causes light-colored manes and tails in chestnut-colored horses...

recessive mode of inheritance. Flaxen chestnut and blond chestnut are terms that describe manes and/or tails that are flaxen, or significantly lighter than...

chocolate (rather than black) points. Flaxen chestnut vs. palomino: Horses having light chestnut coats with flaxen manes and tails, such as those found...

Abnormalities. It will typically dilute a black mane and tail to a silvery gray or flaxen color, and a black body to a chocolaty brown, sometimes with dapples. It...

mane and tail. Chestnut with flaxen mane and tail: Lighter chestnuts with a light cream mane and tail carry a flaxen gene, but not a cream dilution. For...

those surrounding spotting patterns, color sub-shades such as "sooty" or "flaxen", and markings. The two basic pigment colors of horse hairs are pheomelanin...

champagne gene is a simple dominant allele responsible for a number of rare horse coat colors. The most distinctive traits of horses with the champagne gene are...

Flax or Flaxen is a pale yellowish-gray, the color of straw or unspun dressed flax. The first recorded use of flax as a color name in English was in 1915...

dilution gene is any one of a number of genes that act to create a lighter coat color in living creatures. There are many examples of such genes: Diluted...