One common feature characteristic of all Tabby cats is the distinctive “M” shape on the forehead. Many believe the “M” symbolizes Mau, the ancient Egyptian word for cat. There are actually five ...

Some cats, such as the elegant Abyssinian, carry what's called a ticked pattern, where instead of stripes, the cat may appear similar to a tabby in some areas, yet have smaller, fleck-like markings.

Ticked tabby: Ticked tabby cats are a bit more difficult to distinguish. They don’t look like other tabby cats. The Moggie and Abyssinian breeds do not show the typical patterns on their body.

The mackerel tabby, often called a striped tabby or a tiger cat, has narrow stripes of dark fur instead of the blotches or swirls of the classic tabby. In the “broken mackerel” coat pattern ...

The mackerel tabby, often called a striped tabby or a tiger cat, has narrow stripes of dark fur instead of the blotches or swirls of the classic tabby. In the "broken mackerel" coat pattern, the ...

A so-called "mackerel tabby" cat has dark tiger stripes, which coalesce into swirls and blotches in a "classic tabby" cat. Like other periodic natural patterns such as stripes on a zebra or spinal ...

How developing cats translate skin thickness to fur pigment is still “one of the big unanswered questions in our work—how to connect the process of pre-pattern formation to the process that ...

NEW YORK - Scientists say they’ve found the gene that sets the common tabby cat pattern - stripes or blotches. It’s one of several genes that collaborate to create the distinctive design of a ...

Of the 195 cats in the 99 Cat Consortium database, 80 had either solid or white coats and their ticked-tabby phenotype could not be determined (regardless of their underlying genotype).

Mackerel tabby - often called a tiger, this pattern has narrow parallel stripes all over. Classic tabby - the patterns are swirling and bold and sometimes referred to as a marble or blotched tabby.