The lowest recessive in this series is the well known albino mutation, giving a pure white animal with pink eyes. It does not matter which other genes the mouse has, with cc it is always a pink eyed white mouse. When mated together, two albino mice always produce only pink-eyed white albino mice.

One should always remember, that albino mice always carry a full set of other genes - you can't use albinos with other colours "just like that" in order to get bigger mice with better type. When mating an albino mouse to mouse of any other colour, you will get surprises (sometimes pleasant, sometimes not so pleasant) if you are not familiar with the genetic background of the albino mouse.

Note, that an albino mouse with the dominant yellow gene will still suffer from obesity and other problems common for mice with this gene!

As stated elsewhere on these pages, also other combinations of genes can give a pink-eyed white mouse. If you get also other colours when mating two pink eyed whites together, one or both of your mice are not albinos.

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Quiz Time!

Quiz four: How to find out what genes an albino mouse carries? Answer is here.