Hi all,
So as most of you that frequent this thread know that I too frequent it lol. I am fascinated by cat color genetics and love learning new things from the rest of you guys. I'm a huge science nerd so finding out where colors come from and what gender/breeds they're linked to is just amazing.
Anyway, something I've not really figured out is where the calico gene comes from. I understand that boy kittens inherit their color from the mothers and females get a gene from both mother and father. So how is a calico produced? It's fairly common here in America but I know many people from London/Europe that hardly ever see the color. And when a mother cat is a calico what will her baby boys look like since males cannot be calico but they still technically speaking get their color alleles from her??
Sorry for so much, I'm just really curious to know how that works lol.
So as most of you that frequent this thread know that I too frequent it lol. I am fascinated by cat color genetics and love learning new things from the rest of you guys. I'm a huge science nerd so finding out where colors come from and what gender/breeds they're linked to is just amazing.
Anyway, something I've not really figured out is where the calico gene comes from. I understand that boy kittens inherit their color from the mothers and females get a gene from both mother and father. So how is a calico produced? It's fairly common here in America but I know many people from London/Europe that hardly ever see the color. And when a mother cat is a calico what will her baby boys look like since males cannot be calico but they still technically speaking get their color alleles from her??
Sorry for so much, I'm just really curious to know how that works lol.