Albinism in animals

nne Albinos and albinism

Work cat: Recent instances of albinism in North American amphibians and reptiles, 1981 (OCoLC)7610839
A dictionary of zoology, 2020, online via Oxford Reference, Sep. 20, 2022 (albinism; In animals, the heritable condition observed as the inability to form melanin in the hair, skin, or vascular coat of the eyes. It is due to a deficiency in the enzyme tyrosinase, and is usually inherited as an autosomal recessive gene (i.e. a recessive gene on a chromosome other than a sex chromosome in the cell nucleus))

Heading changed from Albinos and albinism to Albinism, Albinism in animals, and People with albinism in February 2023.
Established February 2023.