Silver vs white

Sonoran Silkies

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Tim, Henk, David, etc. I have managed to understand at least a bit of how dominant and recessive white work at the cellular level. Can any of y'all explain the same for silver? I assume that silver, like white, is absence of pigment in the feather...or is it something else?
 
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The silver mutation has something to do with transporting of the pigment (vesicles, cellular organelles).
The sexlinked albinism mutation is at the same gene/locus and inhibits both pigment kinds to a certain level.
I recommend you google for the s^al mechanism too.
 

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