MESSYBEAST CATS
BASIC GENETICS FOR BREEDERS AND CAT LOVERS

 

BASIC GENETICS

Basic Inheritance and Cell Division
Basics 2: Adaptation and Evolution - A Worked Example
Genetics of Colour and Conformation
Genetic Anomalies of Cats
Genetics Jargon File - Plain English Meanings
Gene Loci, Alleles & Phenotypes (Colour & Type)
Gene Symbols for Feline Mutations
Influence of the Father on Kittens' Temperaments
Is Coat Colour Linked to Temperament?
Mismatings & Double Matings - A Legacy for Later Generations
New Mutations - What Next?
Pros and Cons of Cloning
Pros and Cons of Inbreeding
Pros & Cons of Mutation & Why Mutation Can't Be Eliminated
Who "Owns" a Mutation?

GENETICS OF AGOUTI (ASIP), TAGPEP (TABBY) AND CORIN (GOLDEN/WIDEBAND) GENES

Basic Genetics of Eumelanin (Black & Brown Pigments) and Phaeomelanin (Red Pigment)
Agouti and Corin Genes; Role of Corin in Placenta Development
Genetics of Taqpep Gene and How Tabby Patterns Develop
Genetics of Red Gene - Red Gene Identified
Genetics of Inhibitor Gene - Silver Gene Identified
Past & Present Genetic Theories for Silver & Golden Series
Polygenes and Gene Mismatch

MOSAICS, CHIMERAS & TORTIE TOMCATS

"Bimetallic" Siberians (a tortie "mimic" condition)
Genetics of Tortie Tomcats
Gallery of Tortie Tomcats
Nineteenth, Twentieth & Twenty-First Century Reports of Tortie Tomcats
Klinefelter Syndrome (XXY Males)
Chimeras (Fused Embryos)
Chimera Genetic Investigation by Petgeno (Judy Hao)
Five Impossibles - A Dispay of Tortie Tomcats in 1967
Torbie Dynasty A dynasty with several generations of torbie (tabby-tortie) males
Gender Anomalies in cats
A History of Studying the Inheritance of Yellow and Black in Cats

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