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 ...

Torbie cats are not a specific breed but rather, like tabby cat patterns, a coat pattern that can appear in various breeds, including Maine Coons, British shorthairs, and domestic shorthairs.

The Taqpep gene establishes the pattern of a cat’s coat while a kitty is still in the womb, likely by determining the level of expression of another gene– Endothelin3 (Edn3)–that drives the ...

To find out, Lewis Hong looked for genes whose activity varied between the yellow and black zones of a cheetah’s skin. His search yielded 60 genes that were more active in the black spots, and ...

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 nearly 60 million pet cats in the United States, one of the most common is the classic tabby—a coat pattern that features stripes, dots, and swirls and what looks like an M imprinted on ...