From sleek black to vibrant orange tabby cat patterns, motley calico, and mottled tortoiseshell ... Instead, their snowy fur results from a genetic mechanism that masks the expression of other ...

This produces the ticked tabbies with a mottled, "salt-and-pepper" or ... Two-colored, bi-color cats possess two-colored fur, often white and some other simple color such as black, gray, or ...

The stunning, patchy fur of tortoiseshell cats reveals a ... one X chromosome is randomly switched off, creating the cat's signature mottled pattern of orange and black patches.