Two Independent Loci for Albinism in Raccoons, Procyon lotor

Abstract

Various crosses in the laboratory and reports in the literature suggest that albinism is recessive in the raccoon, Procyon lotor. On occasion, pink-eyed albinistic parents produce normally pigmented young. Pink-eyed white raccoons probably result from recessive alleles at independent loci. When these alleles are homozygous, each is epistatic to the alleles for normal pigmentation.