Cats
region along the spine. Even though red cats are registered as "red self" they are still red
tabbies, albeit red tabbies with very reduced markings. Because they lack the polygenes for
high contrast between markings and background colour, their offspring also appear to be red
self. More information can be found in Robinson's "Genetics for Cat Breeders".
DILUTION AND MODIFIED DILUTION - MALTESING AND CARAMELISING
The simplest modification of the 4 basic colours is dilution. As the name suggests, this
"washes out" the original colour to something paler. This is also called maltesing since the it
was first identified in black cats and blue cats - Maltese is term for blue-grey and some of the
eary blue cats imported into Britain were known as Maltese cats.
A secondary type of dilution is called the dilute modifier. It only affects already diluted
colours. Since it gave rise to the colour "caramel"
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