Silver (Marble/Spotted)
One of my personal favorites is the silver bengal. They have a silver coat with a lovely black pattern. Silvers also come in different shades. They can have almost white backgrounds while some will have a very dark steel colored background color. Silvers are a complicated color to breed for as most silvers have some degree of tarnish. Tarnish is a yellow/rust color present on the coat. It can cause the pattern and clarity of the silver to diminish which is undesirable. Tarnish is usually located on the face, legs and back. Silvers can be found in any other color combination. Ex. Silver snow, Silver charcoal, Blue Silver, etc....
Genetics
Silver is not actually a color but an inhibitor gene (I). It works by affecting Phaeomelanin (yellow Pigment) leaving the coat a white/silver color. If you pull back the hair of a silver cat it will always be white at the base of the hair shaft. The silver inhibitor gene prevents the normal color from being expressed. So genetically a normal silver Bengal is genetically brown. A cat only needs one silver parent to be silver since (I) is dominant .
Genetics
Silver is not actually a color but an inhibitor gene (I). It works by affecting Phaeomelanin (yellow Pigment) leaving the coat a white/silver color. If you pull back the hair of a silver cat it will always be white at the base of the hair shaft. The silver inhibitor gene prevents the normal color from being expressed. So genetically a normal silver Bengal is genetically brown. A cat only needs one silver parent to be silver since (I) is dominant .
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