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The genetic influences on tipped or shaded cats are: Agouti gene. Tabby pattern genes (such as T a masking the tabby pattern). Silver/melanin inhibitor gene I/i. Golden CORIN gene. Factors affecting the number and width of bands of color on each hair, such as the hypothetical wide band gene wb. Resulting in shaded or tipped (chinchilla/shell ...
The ticked tabby pattern is a result of a different allele at the same gene locus as the mackerel and classic tabby patterns and this allele is dominant over the others. So a T a T a genotype as well as T a T m and T a T b genotypes will be ticked tabbies. The ticked tabby coat essentially masks any other tabby pattern, producing a non ...
Markings pattern: Mackerel tabby. The markings to the ground pattern contrast must be extreme and distinct, giving a clear, sharply edged pattern. Body markings: Body stripes shall generally be vertically aligned with encircling markings on neck, legs, and tail. Bold, braided, and non-uniform stripes are preferred.
GCCF recognizes four variants of tabby: classic, mackerel, spotted and ticked. [8] Bicolor pattern: Recognized by GCCF and CFA. [6] [8] The bicolor pattern is created by the addition of a white spotting gene to any of the other accepted colors/patterns. The cat will have white on its belly, on the legs/paws, and in an inverted "V" on the face.
In 2013 the GCCF recognised the Aztec as a separate breed. The Aztec is a mackerel tabby coated version of the Ocicat that would often occur in litters but not meet the standard of the Ocicat as it called for spotted cats only. Aside from the coat it is otherwise identical to the Ocicat. [9]
Pluto, the little ginger tabby kitten, was just supposed to be a foster cat. Abandoned by his mother at only two weeks old, things were rough for poor Pluto in the beginning, but he had an eager ...
Domestic cats have four distinct and heritable coat patterns – ticked, mackerel, blotched, and spotted – these are collectively referred to as tabby markings. [16] Christopher Kaelin, a Stanford University geneticist, has conducted research that has been used to identify the spotted gene and the marble gene in domestic Bengal cats. Kaelin ...
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