#he was born in my favourite cattery and if he isn't amber carrier hát én bevonulok a bolondokházába

[amber-tortoiseshell]

Featured breed: devon rex

(The cats are solids, because apparently locketed chocolate tabbies can't be found on the internet. By me, i mean. I'm not very good in this. But hey, at least I found some solids!)

genetics guide

Brown (tyrosinase-related protein-1, TYRP1): this gene determines the quantity of the functional eumelanin.

dominant allele: B - full pigment production, black cat (wild type)

"middle" allele: b - less pigment, chocolate cat (variant)

recessive allele: bl - even less pigment, cinnamon cat (variant)

Order of dominance: B > b > bl

The depicted variant is chocolate.

Further description in this post

Low-grade white (?): Hypothetic gene(s). Even with the extreme variability of the white spotting allele(s), the existence of some independently inherited genes is strongly suspected. Their effects most commonly manifest as a white locket: a small white patch on the chest or the belly, and/or a white tail tip. I'm not sure if there is any consensus whether these are more likely to be recessive or dominant alleles.

Bonus: tailtip

Norwegian forest cats with a white tailtip because I count that here too but I always show lockets

Ok ok, I'm actually not sure that their white tailtip is not just part of their general white-spotting, which does have a lot of unpredictibility. But still, cats without any white but their tailtip exist. I think.

#cats #cat genetics #genetics #macska #polls #tournament poll #round 1 #brown #locket #both of the norwegians are personal choices for me #the black-and-white cat is pan's polaris and a very important founder of the breed #i think literally every living nfo is related to him #the tabby is Nordic Verden Fülöp #he was born in my favourite cattery and if he isn't amber carrier hát én bevonulok a bolondokházába #his mother is a carrier so he indeed has very good chances to be one (50%) #and he looks soooo amber #like his stripes on his back are closer the an amber cat's warm golden brown than to black #sorry i messed up the scheduling yesterday #cat color gene tournament