[LMB] OT: feline coat colors

Phil Boswell phil.boswell at gmail.com
Fri Jan 12 12:08:21 GMT 2007


On 12/01/07, Elizabeth McCoy <arcangel at io.com> wrote:
> At 10:09 PM -0500 1/10/07, Sylvus Tarn wrote:
[snip]
> >gene is sex-linked---it's carried on the X chromosome, so far as I know
> >the gene affecting tabby striping isn't sex linked.
> I've had tabbies of all genders. I don't think that part _could_ be!

Our young red-tabby boy would agree with you, as would our senior male
who, whilst being basically black, does display tabby-like stripes
when he's cooked himself chocolate-brown in the sun ;-)
-- 
Phil


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