Mosaicism in Cats
Edit Page
Report
Scan day: 04 March 2014 UTC
-219
Virus safety - good
Description: The genetics underlying the very rare male tortoiseshell pattern in cats.
MOSAICS, CHIMERAS & TORTIE TOMCATS MOSAICS, CHIMERAS & TORTIE TOMCATS When this article was originally written (1996), a breeder was investigating her fertile tortoiseshell and white stud cat. This tortie tomcat only passed on the gene for red and never for black. Tissue samples found that her stud cat was a red-and-white bicolor "somatic mosaic". The black areas of his coat were due to local mutations of skin cells - much like moles or birthmarks - and he was genetically a red-and-white bicolour. Since then there have been many more studies into tortie tomcats, many of whome were fertile, and this has turned the accepted theory of tortie males being due to chromosomal abnormalities and therefore infertile on its head. In fact there are some pedigrees that have two or three generations of fertile tortoiseshell males.
Size: 854 chars
Contact Information
Email: —
Phone&Fax: —
Address: —
Extended: —
WEBSITE Info
| Page title: | MOSAICS, CHIMERAS & TORTIE TOMCATS |
| Keywords: | tortoiseshell, calico, brindle, mosaic, albino, chimera, chimaera, genetic, klinefelter |
| Description: | |
| IP-address: | 31.193.129.75 |
WHOIS Info
| NS | Name Server: NS1.AMENWORLD.COM Name Server: NS2.AMENWORLD.COM |
| WHOIS | Status: ok |
| Date | Creation Date: 23-mar-2001 Expiration Date: 23-mar-2014 |