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’ pattern features a dark stripe along the spine with thin vertical stripes that run down the flanks of the cat, very similar to the stripes seen on tigers. Spotted grey tabby cats have ...

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.

Most cats are born with some sort of pattern or marking, but one cat's unusual markings have impressed the internet where the feline has been compared to The Phantom of the Opera. Erin—who uses ...

[The 10 Coolest Genomes Ever Sequenced] One mystery of cat development is how cats have come to have such varied coats, from solid colors to "mackerel" tabby patterns of thin vertical stripes.

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 ...

The geneticists examined 200 liters of nonviable embryos to determine the mystery behind the tabby pattern and how it emerges in developing cats. They applied single-cell gene. Tabby cat.