#dilute

[felinefractious]

Sri-sawasdee Tattep [Pedigree]

🐱 Siamese

📸 Frunk [Sri-sawasdee Cattery]

🎨 Blue Point

[odddogs]

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what can i say folks, i just fucking love this thing, if i could have this i'd take it in a heartbeat

[the-tortie-girls]

itchy animal

[catthinkrightnow]

[identifyingcatsinposts]

We picked this guy up of the street and are dying to know what kind of cat he is.

Blue lynx point domestic shorthair with low white spotting (grade 3, probably tuxedo)! [a 09 21 33]

(As he ages and the albinistic fur darkens, it’ll be easier to see if he has white on his chest or not. Based on the pale muzzle I suspect he’s a tuxedo, but he may only have the white mitts — hard to tell with colorpoints!)

[amber-tortoiseshell]

Thank you for explaining the cat coloring genetics, it's so cool! I do have a question - is there a surefire way to tell a red apart from a cream? I have a red boy who I'm not sure if he's more red or cream, it feels like the lighting on him can be so tricky when I'm trying to figure it out.

Eh, not really. You get used to it. Cream has usually lot less contrast between marks and background, generally more pastely.

[identifying-dog-colors]

Hello! This is Henry- he's a fawn basset fauve de bretagne. What would be his genetic colour? He's mostly orang, but he's also got a darker stripe down the middle of his back- is that caused by anything?

Henry 🥺🥺 I loooove the basset breeds! He looks to be a blue (dilute) sable:

ky/ky E/- Ay/- B/- d/d S/-

The stripe down the back might be a few different things. It could just be sable shading, which usually doesn't form such a clear stripe but is possible. It could also just be mostly textural - a weird shed or extra-intense guard hairs. Or it could possibly be minor CDA (color dilution alopecia), which often seems to affect the flank hairs more than the hairs along the back.

[birdgenetics]

Dilute Di & Champagne Blond Cb

Dilute and Champagne Blond are two very mysterious dominant pheomelanin dilution genes commonly found in buff.

They turn an otherwise red bird buff, but you can't tell which a buff bird has by looking at it. Probably usually both.

Most likely some of the "yellow duckwing" birds that exist have one of these, however since these genes behave so similarly, it would be hard to figure out which of these genes is causing the expression.

Here are some characteristics of each

Di Dilute:

Incompletely dominant.

Isolated from a buff Minorca, however, this buff Minorca might have had Cb as well.

Dilutes pheomelanin in adult plumage.

Dilutes pheomelanin in chick down, reducing the lateral stripes on wild type down (dorsal stripes remained.)

Dilution of dermal pigment (skin color)

Partial eumelanin restrictor (so I guess it helps push some of the black out of a buff's tail.)

Cb Champagne Blond:

Dominant.

Might have a close linkage with Columbian,

Not supposed to dilute down or affect down pattern

They both appear to be useful for creating the most even buff possible.

Yeah, that's all I could find! What a disappointing finale to all of my chicken plumage color genetics posts!