I’d be interested in doing this, but do you have enough individuals in your databank to be accurate in identifying specific breed heritage?
That's their goal. If they don't have info on a certain breed immediately, that doesn't mean they won't have that info in the near future. To me anything is better than what we as cat owners have now which is basically nothing. UC Davis doesn't give you breed information. I emailed them and that's what they told me.
Brown is a recessive mutation of black written as bb, black is BB, Bb is also black but carrying brown. Dense is DD, and dilute is dd, Dd is dense carrying dilute. Silver is dominante and cannot be carried so one parent has to be a visual silver. Ticked is a tabby gene. You can get a color panel genetic test quite cheaply about $60 with a buccal swab (q-tip swab inside cheek)
its super hard to capture in pics, sometimes you can see it plain as day but capture nothing. I have satin cats and many pics look ordinary, the flash caught the shine in this picture.
satin is very sparkly in real life, I think sometimes Bengals look more like satin, and Satins more like glitter. Satins do look like satin in pictures its a hard mutation to pick up in pictures. I have both a glitter and a Satin cat, they are quite different but similar too.The effect we call "glitter" in bengals looks more like the cat has been sprinkled with gold (in brown bengals), pearly (in snows) or iridiscent (in silvers) dust all over the body, especially in the areas of cheeck-bones, "eyebrows", and along the spine. Satin looks more like a super reflective quality of their coat, and I've seen it in other breeds (my persian mix, Raistlin, has that satin effect in his legs too), but not tremendously often. I would compare it, in a certain way, with the "silver" tips of some top quality Russian Blue cats, though I am almost certain that the genes involved have nothing to do. I definetely see it in your blue boy, more specifically in his front left arm. Check if different lights allow you to see it more clearly; sunlight is usually the best for this, but even the light of my nightable lamp can make Freya "shine" like that, so it is worth trying. Please, share the results of your experiments!
The muscular part you mentioned is totally bengalish, these are like new Captain America: big cats full of muscle
I would really like to do this, but I didn't think the website was very specific about what it would report and $95 X 2 would be a real luxury. I did like that as they gather more data, they will retroactively add to their reports. Thanks for the info. I'll have to watch for a sale price.
I find coat genetics very complicated. I can't quite imagine how a genetics test would sort out either one of my cats. Timo is both ticked and tabby and both gray (or is it silver) and white. I can't figure out how that would be expressed in the paired genetic language. And Gemini is brown with liver colored lips and paws. But I am told she has ghost tabby stripes. Again, I can't figure out how that would be expressed in the paired genetic language. The brown I expect would be expressed as bb, but how is the ghost tabby expressed?
