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Visual Caramel Albino (T+). Warm caramel/brown tones with yellow highlights. Retains some melanin unlike T- Albino.
Tyrosinase-positive albinism. Reduces but does not eliminate melanin, producing warm caramel, brown, and yellow tones with lighter eyes. Unlike T- Albino, Caramel Albinos retain some dark pigment. Sometimes called T+ Albino. The relationship to the TYR locus (T- Albino, Candy/Toffee) is debated. Some sources suggest allelism with TYR; others treat it as an independent locus. The Ultramel phenotype may involve interaction between Caramel and Albino alleles, suggesting they could be at the same locus.
How to identify it: Warm caramel/brown tones with yellow highlights. Eyes lighter than normal but not pink/red like T- Albino. Retains some melanin (not fully amelanistic). Pattern shape normal.
Caramel Albino follows a recessive inheritance pattern, carried on the Caramel Albino allele (locus CaramelAlbino).
Because Caramel Albino is recessive, an animal needs two copies of the allele to show the trait visually. An animal with a single copy is called het caramel albino (heterozygous). A het animal looks normal but carries the gene, so pairing two het caramel albino animals produces, on average, one in four visual caramel albino offspring.
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