![]() ![]() This means that the pattern maybe visible at birth, but when the cat matures the silver wide band area increases and the cat appears to be only tipped with color. Shortly after the point where the agouti pattern starts the color disappears. Due to the contrast of colored and non colored parts of the hairs the pattern is enhanced. In a silver tabby only the agouti bands, the tips and the solid hairs are colored. The inhibitor gene suppresses the synthesis of pigment after a certain point. This gene is responsible for the silver expression in silver tabbies, shadeds (chinchilla's, tippeds) and smokes. ![]() Separate from the agouti gene there is another gene that influences the color of the hairs: the inhibitor gene I. The agouti gene) controls the deposition of alternately much or less color in the hairs. The coat pattern is determined by a combined action of the agouti gene and the genes for the various tabby patterns. Marala's Silver Spring (breeder Marla Vales, photo/owner Ingrid May) That cattery Cork started and built her own cattery, specializing in smokesĪnd shaded silvers, with the offspring of this stock. Marla Vales of cattery Marala continued the work One of the longhair cats as a foundation cat. This with her own cats until she got to the point that she could register Have shaded silver Maine Coons and purchased one of her cats and mated That way it was much easier to produceĪ shaded cat without a pattern. Wanted to breed for shaded silver American Shorthairs. In the early 1970 a breeder and judge in Memphis, called Mary Bolles, In Pawpeds two litters of Cork Felix are registered: one fromĪ mating with Mladia Titania of Cork and one with the daughter from this That is the line that ends with Cork Felix (shaded silver) who has asįoundation parents: father Snowball (shaded silver) and mother Fluffy In het lines far enough, they all have a specific background in common. The pedigrees of ticked Maine Coons you will notice that when you go back In the Maine Coon the ticked pattern is less prevalent. Gene only from one parent then you will still see stripes on the head, It will resemble the look of the Abyssinian and Somali. Pattern in the case that the cat has inherited this gene from both parents. The Ticked (TA) gene masks the original pattern by a patternless agouti In a way that spotted patterns appear by breaking it in pieces. ![]() The Spotted (SP) gene can modify both the mackeral as the classic pattern We make a distinction between large effect (one of each parent), littleĮffect (only one parent) and no effect (none of each parent). The cat has inherited this gene of each parent or just one parent. To what extend these genes have an effect is dependent of whether TheyĬan be influenced or masked by genes that result in spotted and ticked There are in fact only two tabby patterns: mackerel and classic. Genemapping) however has proven otherwise. Recent research of the exact locations of genes (so-called The tabby pattern is unknown or unrecognizable (Vans and Harlequins).įor years the general idea was that the four tabby patterns operated independentįrom each other. In the FIFé standard of the Maine Coon the following tabby patternsĪre mentioned: unspecified tabby pattern (21), classic (22), mackerel Mainelyclassic Rocky of Broadsway (breeder Rae Sammis/ owners Jennifer Sable and Jean Thompson / Photo: Tamila Aspen) ![]()
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