Recessive genes require two copies (one from each parent) to be expressed. The mackerel tabby (Mc) is the default ( wild type) pattern, with the classic pattern being recessive (mc). Genetically all cats are tabby, however, many possess modifier genes that inhibit this pattern from being expressed. If a cat inherits two recessive a genes, then it will be a non-tabby (solid) cat as the presence of the a/a masks the tabby pattern.Ī/a =non-tabby (solid) Spots, sworls and stripes
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The agouti gene is dominant the code for this gene is A/a (a capital letter symbolises that the gene is dominant, a lower case letter means the gene is recessive). Certain it is that the word tabby only referred to the marking or stripes, not to the absolute colour. But it might also, one would suppose, with as much justice, be called a taffey cat, unless the calendering of “taffey” caused it to become “tabby”. This stuff, in bygone times, was often called tabby: hence the cat with lines or markings on its fur was called a “tabby” cat. The word tabby was derived from a kind of taffeta, or ribbed silk, which when calendered or what is now termed watered, is by that process covered with wavy lines. Harrison Weir, in his book Our Cats And All About Them, dated 1889, describes the origins as this: The name tabby is believed to have derived from Atabi, which is a type of striped taffeta (known as tabbi) that was manufactured in the Attabiah district of Baghdad in the Middle East. Agouti ( symbolised with an uppercase A) is dominant over almost all other coat colours with an exception for the white masking and white spotting genes. Ticked Abyssinian catĭomestic cats inherited the agouti gene from their wild cat ancestors, the African wildcat ( Felis silvestris lybica). Agouti hairs are most obvious on the ticked tabby (such as the Abyssinian or Singapura) who only has the agouti background but not the stripes, spots or sworls. The tabby gene is known as agouti and produces a background that is made up of individual hairs that have alternate banding ( ticking). The tabby cat is not a breed, but a coat colour that can be found in both mixed breed and purebred cat populations. Notice the narrow stripes that go vertically down the flanks.Tabby is a coat pattern among domestic cats (purebred and mixed-breed) that features an agouti pattern of alternating dark and pale bands of colour along the hair shaft with contrasting darker spots, stripes or sworls and a prominent M on the forehead.
My Thomas is a perfect mackerel tabby and white cat. It’s rare to see ticked tabby patterns in mixed-breed cats, but it does happen. There are three tabby patterns: A classic tabby has a more marbled and blotchy pattern a mackerel tabby has narrow stripes and a ticked tabby has black-tipped fur with a lighter color underneath. Notice the large splotches of black in almost a target shape. Dilute torties are covered in gray and cream-colored fur.
The red and black is in a randomly patched, rather than spotted, pattern. Photo CC-BY-NC Augie RayĪ tortoiseshell, or tortie, cat is distinguished from a calico because a tortie is entirely red and black. Tortoiseshell A tortiseshell cat, as opposed to a calico, is covered with small splotches of black and red. Calico cats can be dilute colored, with gray and cream-colored spots. Photo CC-BY-NC Michael Frank FranzĪ calico cat is white with patches of red and black. This color pattern is named after the Turkish Van cat, which is white with a red or black tail and perhaps a few other small patches of color on the head and shoulders. Photo CC-BY-SA ChrisĪ cat with a van color pattern is almost entirely white with small patches of color. A tuxedo cat is a classic bicolor kitty, but bicolor cats can come in every color on the feline spectrum.
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Bicolor My lovely Tara is a tuxedo cat.Ī bicolor cat is any color plus white.
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