Burmese Cat Colour Genetics

A new coat color termed russet has been identified in burmese cats with australian and new zealand lineages.

Burmese cat colour genetics. Burmese colour mating chart. Red show cats have a deep orange color but it can also present as a yellow or light ginger color. Joseph thompson of san francisco brought a small walnut brown female cat from burma. The burmese gene is also present in some other cat breeds particularly the established rex breeds where it can be fully expressed in its homozygous form cbcb referred to as burmese colour restriction or sepia.

The gene c colour dominant over all others is mutated into cb. This burmese gene creates a brownish coat for a genetically black cat sable burmese. The burmese gene is a variation of the albino serial. Joseph thompson who either acquired her from a sailor or brought her back himself from his travels depending on which story you believe.

1959 saw more colour variations along came the chocolate and the lilac and 1964 saw the red cream lilac and the torties. The burmese breed first came to america in 1930 when dr. Other names include yellow ginger and marmalade. All it needed was a mating between two sable burmese carrying this respective blue factor.

Feline coat color introduction the modern day domestic cat displays a wide variety of coat colors and patterns. Wong mau was at first thought to be a siamese with a chocolate colored coat. The matriarch of the modern burmese was a small dark brown cat named wong mau. Unidentified rufousing polygenes are theorized to be the reason for this variance.

Young russet kittens have color and markings largely identical to tabby kittens of the same age and base color regardless of whether the kitten is agouti a or non agouti aa in genotype. The same gene can also be combined with the siamese gene cbcs to produce either darker points or a light on dark brown. It is the white spotting gene ws that causes the white spots or patches in the fur. The base color can be black red or tortoiseshell.

The blue gene was passed to the burmese siamese hybrid and then to a pure burmese. Below is a table of the coat color genes and dna tests offered by the veterinary genetics laboratory. Colour mating chart for brown blue chocolate and lilac burmese showing percentages of colours which might be expected over a number of litters. She belonged to dr.

The russet phenotype develops with age. Through selective breeding the unique solid brown colored coat now known as sable was isolated. The pattern varies from tuxedo when the cat is mostly black with a little bit of white on its chest to van mostly white with colored tail and top of the head. Classification of these can be confusing sometimes because different registries or associations may name the same phenotype differently.