From my very basic understanding, calico patterns like this are much more common in female cats because of the two X chromosomes. There’s some coloring gene that’s on the X chromosome and not the Y, and the X chromosome that gets expressed is kind of random per-area.
This is from vague memories from biology class from years ago, though.
From my very basic understanding, calico patterns like this are much more common in female cats because of the two X chromosomes. There’s some coloring gene that’s on the X chromosome and not the Y, and the X chromosome that gets expressed is kind of random per-area.
This is from vague memories from biology class from years ago, though.
That’s interesting! Now I’m trying to think of people’s cats I know