Directory of Coat and Coloration Resources

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Genetics of coat color and pattern inheritance in the domestic cat.

Resources in This Category

• Basic Genetics as Revealed by Cats

  http://ib.berkeley.edu/courses/ib162/Week3a.htm
  Introduction to genetic terminology using the cat as an example. Covers agouti, black, dilute, albino, red, dominant white and piebald.

• Basic Self (Solid) Colors of Cats

  http://messybeast.com/self-solid.htm
  Description of the genetics of the solid colors and their modifiers.

• Cat Color Genetics

  http://www.fanciers.com/other-faqs/color-genetics.html
  Includes information, mating tables, pigmentation, white cats, ticking and tabby, shading and white spotting.

• Feline Genetics

  http://www.hdw-inc.com/genetics.htm
  Coat color genetics with an emphasis on the Bengal.

• Genetics of the Shaded American Shorthair

  http://my.net-link.net/~cwjohnso/genetics.html
  Article about tabby genetics and modifying factors affecting it including wideband, silvering and modifying polygenes as related to the shaded American Shorthair breed.

• Mosaicism in Cats

  http://messybeast.com/mosaicism.htm
  The genetics underlying the very rare male tortoiseshell pattern in cats.

• Practical Color and Coat Length Genetics for Abyssinian and Somali Breeders

  http://www.nileabys.bigpondhosting.com/genetics.htm
  Article reproduced from the Abysinnian Breeder magazine explaining Abysinnian and Somali coat color inheritance.

• The Pigment Parade

  http://home.earthlink.net/~featherland/off/white.html
  A description of the actions of the white spotting and epistatic white genes in cats.

• Tonkinese Genetics

  http://www.fanciers.com/breed-faqs/tonk-genetics.shtml
  The color genetics of Tonkinese, Siamese and Burmese.

• Tonkinese Genetics

  http://www.tonkinesebreedassociation.org/tonkgenetics.html
  Coat color, pattern, conformation and eye color genetics of Tonkinese.

• Torties, Calicos and Tricolor Cats

  http://www.fanciers.com/cat-faqs/tricolors.shtml
  Information about the distinguishing characteristics of each pattern named and the genetics factors behind them.

• We are Siamese if you Please

  http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF8/836.html
  A short piece about the temperature sensitivity of the albino gene.

 

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