Many breed descriptions for cats contain information about coat colors such as tawny, apricot, or caramel. The terms tabby ...

Due to the coat being distinctive and striking, many people adopted these cats and they became household pets. Scientists called the coat pattern salmiak, after a type of "salty licorice" in ...

Turkish Van. The Turkish Van may be famous for its striking “Van pattern”—a mostly white coat with touches of color on the head and tail, but some also come in gorgeous shades of orange and ...

The coat of the traditional tabby, or ‘bullseye’ or "swirled," is the most typical fur pattern of house cats. It features wide, rounded spots on the sides and a clear ‘M’ on the forehead.

Citation: "Specifying and Sustaining Pigmentation Patterns in Domestic and Wild Cats." By Christopher B. Kaelin, Xiao Xu, Lewis Z. Hong, Victor A. David, Kelly A ...

If there's a defining characteristic of a cat, it's the coat: the spectrum of colors, patterns and fur lengths that catch your eye when passing one on the street or ogling at one lounging on a ...

How developing cats translate skin thickness to fur pigment is still “one of the big unanswered questions in our work—how to connect the process of pre-pattern formation to the process that ...

Piebald patterns are among the most striking animal coat patterns in nature. Although the effects of piebaldism are relatively mild, it is one of a range of more serious defects called ...