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Hello, I'm Tall Shadow the one and only! I draw genetically accurate warriors. Use these designs however you'd like, put them in facts compilations, draw them yourselves, repost them to pinterest, please just remember to credit tall_shadow4 if you do so!
Genes I am using for this project:
AGOUTI:
A - tabby, dominant to...
a - solid (think black cat)
EUMELANIN
affects the black melanin of the cat, most obvious on the color of a solid cat or the stripes of a tabby cat, does not affect red melanin, so orange cats won't change, and neither will orange parts of tortoiseshells
B - black, dominant to...
b - chocolate, dominant to...
b1 - cinnamon
COLORPOINT ALBINISM
cs and cb are temperature sensitive, the mutations weaken a protein that is used during melanin production, so it denatures (which impairs function) at warmer temperatures, basically creating a heat map of the cats body based on where melanin can and can't be produced
C - regular melanin production, dominant to...
cs - siamese color restriction, incomplete dominant (meaning the two traits blend when both are present, creating the "mink" phenotype) with...
cb - burmese color restriction
c - total albinism (not temperature sensitive like the above traits)
DILUTION
D - regular melanin concentration, dominant to...
d - dilution, basically creates a "pastel" phenotype of the cats base color. think black -> grey
DOMINANT BLUE EYES
DBE - dominant blue eyes, allows the cat to have blue eyes with minimal white spotting elsewhere on the body. however, when homozygous, this trait can be lethal or cause birth defects. expression is variable, often cats heterozygous for DBE will be "latent," meaning they have the allele, and can pass it down, but do not express blue eyes or white spotting.
N - no dominant blue eyes.
EXTENSION
I am only using one of the discovered MC1R variants, because I don't know what russet would look like in a non-pointed cat, and I can't think of any cats amber would work for.
E - regular, dominant to...
ec - carnelian extension, basically recessive red, with juveniles maintaining some dark pigment. irl, it's exclusive to Kurlian Bobtails.
INHIBITOR
Inhibitor, well, inhibits melanin on the base of the hair, or the light parts of agouti bands.
I - silver/smoke, dominant to...
i - no silver/smoke
CLASSIC TABBY
cats must be agouti to express these traits
Mc - mackerel tabby (tiger stripes), dominant to...
mc - classic tabby (swirly stripes)
ORANGE
The locus for this trait is located on the X chromosome, meaning in females, it is affected by X inactivation, creating the tortoiseshell pattern. Males can only appear entirely orange or wildtype, and inherit the color solely from their mother.
Because cats cannot express both at the same time in the same cell, who knows what the dominance order is!
O - orange
o - no orange
TICKING
cats must be agouti to express this trait
Ta - ticked pattern, stripeless on body. polygenes and homozygousity of this trait determine how many stripes are present on the tail and legs. dominant to...
ta - not ticked.
CORIN
widens the bands of yellowish pheomelanin on the bands of hair, creating a golden look. I've only used sunshine so far, but there are others.
U - regular corin, dominant to...
us - sunshine (exclusive to Siberians irl)
WHITE SPOTTING
different from albinism because it inhibits the movement of melanocytes (pigment cells) rather than directly disrupting the synthesis of melanin. expression is quite variable, shape of white is unique between individuals.
W - total white, dominant to...
w - no white. codominant (expresses alongside) with...
ws - white spotting.
I am aware that some of these traits are very rare/nonexistent in the random-bred cat population, and I am interested in maybe one day doing not only a genetically accurate, but genetically realistic project. However, I'm drawing hundreds of cats, and I'd get bored being limited to the same seven traits for all of them, so we're just gonna ignore realism.












