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Last light, Mary Mattingly

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icaseybaybee

#summer scenes #fish #collage #joy #habit #salmon

michaelnordeman

A very young Mountain hare/skogshare. Värmland, Sweden (July 4, 2021).

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Bokeh study

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muttsandmustelidae

roan>>>>>

sorceredropout

Can a similar color show up in cats or is that impossible?

muttsandmustelidae

would love for someone who understands cat coat genetics to chime in with more info, but from a quick google search all i’m seeing is that a few cats in Finland have popped up with a roan-like coat pattern?

^ like this stunning guy here

triangle-dog

They found the mutation that causes the salmiak pattern shown above, it's a deletion downstream of the KIT gene (KIT controls several other, but not all, of the other white cat markings). It's a recessive mutation, Photo c in the figure below shows a normal patterned carrier next to his salmiak patterned brother. The carriers may have some white on their coat, but it's unclear if it is due to the single salmiak allele or another cause.

So yeah, it's possible. I'm not aware of any breeding projects for it though.

"FIGURE 1 ... (a) Salmiak solid black cat (aa/wsalwsal), (b) salmiak solid blue cat (diluted black, aa/dd/wsalwsal), (c) salmiak brown mackerel tabby (wsalwsal) (right) and his normal-colored brother heterozygous for salmiak (wsalw), (d) salmiak phenotype on a long-haired solid black cat (not genotyped), (e) salmiak solid black cat (aa/wsalwsal) and (f) salmiak phenotype on a tortoiseshell cat (not genotyped). Cat a was sequenced, and cats b, c and e were genotyped for salmiak. Photo credits: (a) Ari Kankainen and (b–e) courtesy of the cat owners."

Source: A new Finnish flavor of feline coat coloration, “salmiak,” is associated with a 95-kb deletion downstream of the KIT gene. Anderson, H., Salonen, M., Toivola, S., Blades, M., Lyons, L.A., Forman, O.P., Hytönen, M.K. and Lohi, H. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1111/age.13438