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tabby: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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tabby1 CONSTRUCTTabby patternKAELIN · COAT PATTERN

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Feline genetics

The striped or blotched coat pattern of cats

In feline coat genetics, tabby is the ancestral patterning of domestic cats, seen as narrow mackerel stripes or broad blotched whorls laid over an agouti background. Kaelin and colleagues' 2012 Specifying and sustaining pigmentation patterns in domestic and wild cats traced the mackerel-versus-blotched difference to the gene Taqpep and showed how a periodic pre-pattern set up in the developing skin becomes the visible markings. The referent is a heritable pigmentation phenotype governed by identified genes, named for the same striped silk as the weave but a completely different construct, a trap only the shared word creates.[1]

Unit
The spatial coat-marking phenotype (mackerel vs. blotched) and its genotype
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Scored by marking morphology (mackerel, blotched, spotted, ticked) and the underlying Taqpep and agouti genotypes

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References

  1. Kaelin, C. B., Xu, X., Hong, L. Z., David, V. A., McGowan, K. A., Schmidt-Küntzel, A., … Menotti-Raymond, M. (2012). Specifying and sustaining pigmentation patterns in domestic and wild cats. Science, 337(6101), 1536–1541. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1220893

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