What affects us affects cats
In summary, the tabby pattern is the result of agouti-banded hairs clustering in specific regions, directed by genetic factors, and creating visible markings on the cat’s coat. The tabby pattern in a domestic cat’s coat is created by the arrangement of individual tabby hair strands, which exhibit a unique banding pattern of pigmentation. This …
This is an entirely new idea. No one has proposed it before and it is speculative but based on good science. It is known that domestic cats with ginger hair are almost 18 times more likely to develop skin cancer than your typical domestic cat with a different coat colour other than white cats …
A fully illustrated page on the self, tipped, shaded, smoke and ticked (tabby) cat coat hair strands and the positioning of pigmentation which is called melanin (eumelanin). Melanin is created in pigment producing cells called melanocytes in the skin. Their operation is dictated to by the genotype of the cat. Here are the various …
Eumelanin is a pigment in domestic cats and other animals (and humans). It is often referred to as melanin but in fact there are three different types of melanin: eumelanin, pheomelanin and neuromelanin. The two that concern me in this article are eumelanin and pheomelanin. The pigment melanin is in human skin, eyes (iris) …
