| symbol |
image |
name |
description |
| A |
 |
agouti gene |
native, wild, controls the production of
pigment in the hair shaft, turning it on and off to produce a striped
pattern on each hair |
| a |
 |
agouti off |
mutation that blocks the normal on-off
color production and produces hair that is one solid color tip to root. |
| B |
 |
black |
native, wild, produces black (eumelanin)
pigment granules that are round in shape |
| b |
 |
chocolate |
mutation of B which changes the shape of
the pigment granules to oval giving the impression of brown |
| b1 |
 |
cinnamon |
mutation of B which changes the shape of
the pigment granules to cigar shaped to give the impression of the color
of cinnamon |
| C |
|
Full Color |
native wild type gene, allows the
production of full color |
| c |
 |
no color |
two copies of this recessive gene will
produce pink eyed white with no color pigment |
| ca |
|
albino |
two copies of this recessive gene will
produce blue eyed white cats with china blue eyes |
| cb |
. |
burmese |
a sight restriction of the color production
that is temperature sensitive. More pigment is produced in the areas of
the skin that are cooler temperature. |
| cs |
. |
siamese |
a distinctive restriction of color
production with cooler areas being very dense pigment and warmer areas
being little color at all. |
| D |
|
Dense |
Dense production of pigment produced in the
hair shaft |
| d |
 |
dilute |
pigment granules are produced in clumps
with spaces of no pigment between the clumps giving the impression of a
lighter color. |
| I |
 |
Inhibitor |
a mutation that stops the production of
color in the base of each hair shaft |
| i |
|
non-inhibited |
native, wild, allows pigment to be produced
normally |
| O |
 |
red |
changes the pigment production from native
eumelanin to phaomelanin |
| o |
|
non-red |
native, wild, allows normal production of
Eumelanin |
| S |
.. |
spotting |
slows down the migration of pigment cells
in the forming fetus leaving parts of the animal with no pigment (white) |
| s |
.. |
no-spotting |
native, wild, allows normal migration of
pigment cells to cover the entire body. |
| W |
|
white |
blocks the production of pigment in the
hair shaft leaving a coat with no pigment |
