Further Information

Some of the Dog Breeds that carry the Merle gene Include:

• Alapaha Blue Blood Bulldogs
• American Cocker Spaniels - AKC or UKC (not a recognized color for the breed, and often misidentified as Roan)
  See also Cocker Spaniels With Merle Coat Pattern for pictures of a merle Cocker
• American Pit Bull Terriers
• American Staffordshire Terriers
• Australian Shepherds - ASCA or AKC or UKC
  See also Shalako Australian Shepherd Illustrated Breed Standard and Inheritance of Color in the Australian Shepherd
• Beauceron - AKC or UKC (known as harlequin instead of merle)
  See also About Beaucerons for pictures
• Bergers des Pyrenees (Pyrenean Shepherds)
  See also Pyrenean Shepherd Club of America or La Brise: Pyr Shep - Colors for pictures
• Border Collies - USBCC or AKC or UKC
  See also BC Museum: Looks and Health and Collie Corner for pictures
• Cardigan Welsh Corgis - AKC or UKC
  See also Aragorn Cardigan Welsh Corgi - Identifying Coat Colors for pictures
• Catahoula Leopard Dogs
  See also Catahoula Information for some pictures
• Chihuahuas AKC or UKC
  See also Kandees Chihuahuas under "miscellaneous"
  and Luv-A-Puddy - Merle for pictures
• Collies - AKC or UKC (Rough and Smooth)
  See also Rainbow Collies for pictures
• Dachshunds - AKC or UKC (known as "dapple" instead of merle)
  
• Koolies (German Collies/Coolies)
  See also Koolie Photo Gallery for pictures
• Great Danes - AKC or UKC
  See also Danes of a Different Color ...? or Danes-R-Us Great Dane Photo Gallery or Daystar, Dane Colors for pictures
• Hungarian Mudi
• Mixes - MBDCA
• Norwegian (Dunker) Hounds or Norvegian Hound
• Old English Sheepdogs - AKC or UKC
• Pomeranians - AKC or UKC
  See also Pearl Moon Pomeranians - Merle for photos
• Shetland Sheepdogs - AKC or UKC
  See also Sheltie Photo Album for pictures

Resources

Deaf Dog Education Action Fund

www.deafdogs.org

Owners of Blind Dogs

www.blinddogs.com

(Note that while both of these organizations maintain lists of dogs looking for homes, neither one of them is a rescue and cannot take dogs in.)

Australian Shepherd Health & Genetics Institute, Inc.

www.ashgi.org

Basic Genetics (from Internet articles by Sue Ann Bowling)

bowlingsite.mcf.com/Genetics/BasGen.html

Elementary merle genetics for newcomers (also from Internet articles by Sue Ann Bowling)

bowlingsite.mcf.com/Genetics/Merle.html

Mapping Disease Genes using DNA marker

mendel.berkeley.edu/dog/mapping.html

The Dalmatian Dilemma - White Coat Colour and Deafness

www.steynmere.com/DALM_DEAFNESS.html

Inheritance of tweed, a modification of merle, in Australian shepherd dogs

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query...

Dog Coat Color Genetics by Sheila Schmutz

skyway.usask.ca/~schmutz/dogcolors.html