The distinct coat coloring, named for a Finnish snack, was first observed in 2007 in cats from Finland There's a new cat in town! A group of scientists at the University of Helsinki in Finland ...

Wolffberg tells us that the rosette pattern on cats is determined by what's called the agouti gene, which is related to tabby patterns. "The tabby stripe pattern occurs naturally and resembles the ...

They claim that cat coat colors have an effect on the animal ... This video features a tortoiseshell cat with a rather striking hair pattern. One half of her face is entirely black and the ...

A prime example of X inactivation is in the coat-color patterning of tortoiseshell or calico cats (Figure 1). In cats, the fur pigmentation gene is X-linked, and depending on which copy of the X ...