In other species: Japanese medaka , axolotl , marsupials , brush-tailed possums , European mole , stump-tailed macaque , gray wolf , coyote , dog , red fox , domestic cat , Sumatran tiger , mongooses , whales , ass (donkey) , onager , horse , pig , Arabian camel , guanaco , vicugna , llama , taurine cattle , indicine cattle (zebu) , goat , mouflon , sheep , hares , rabbit , Alpine marmot , pocket gophers , golden hamster , Mongolian gerbil , meadow voles , muskrat , black rat , European woodmouse , domestic guinea pig , nutria , gray short-tailed opossum , tench , domestic yak , gray squirrel , western mosquitofish , long-tailed chinchilla , European shrew , red wolf , bobcat , Asiatic golden cat , Mountain hare , golden jackal , tawny dragon , quagga , water buffalo , panther genet , Kinda baboon , Gray snub-nosed monkey , Northern mole vole , American mink , hybrid yellow catfish

Categories: Pigmentation phene

Links to MONDO diseases: No links.

Mendelian trait/disorder: unknown

Considered a defect: unknown

Species-specific description: Muller et al. 2016 reported a giraffe with vitiligo (see OMIA:001055-9894 : Vitiligo in Giraffa camelopardalis) and includes references to several reports of albino or leucistic giraffes. Lee et al. (2018): "demonstrated that some characteristics of giraffe coat spot shape were likely to be heritable ... [and] found significant variation in neonatal survival associated with spot size and shape covariates." A spot-free (solid coloured, unpatterned) giraffe was born in 2023 in a zoo in the USA (https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-023-02700-8/index.html). A previous case was reported in a zoo in Japan in 1972 (Dagg, 2014).

Genetic engineering: Unknown
Have human generated variants been created, e.g. through genetic engineering and gene editing