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[Adamented]

Great to see you working on these n.n

Wanted to add-! wsal is fully recessive, and does not show coupled with wg. Salmiak itself comes with variable levels of solid lower white, but it is only ever expressed (white spotting pattern + roaning) when the kitty is homozygous for wsal.

A bit like topaz, we don't know what to attribute the variable white pattern to, but we know Salmiak cats tested only had wsalwsal KIT mutation. Salmiak is also not progressive like Vitiligo, and they're popular on black self base, but we've seen red tabby and brown tabby Salmiak marked cats too!

[~HєуRєι~]

Great to see you working on these n.n

Wanted to add-! wsal is fully recessive, and does not show coupled with wg. Salmiak itself comes with variable levels of solid lower white, but it is only ever expressed (white spotting pattern + roaning) when the kitty is homozygous for wsal.

A bit like topaz, we don't know what to attribute the variable white pattern to, but we know Salmiak cats tested only had wsalwsal KIT mutation. Salmiak is also not progressive like Vitiligo, and they're popular on black self base, but we've seen red tabby and brown tabby Salmiak marked cats too!

Makes sense! However the problem comes mostly with trying to find visual referencing unfortunately, I've been entirely unable to since most things that come up are just people talking about the gene ;v;

[Adamented]

Oh yeah! Especially since Salmiak isn't isolated and preserved within a breed, it's primarily found in moggies (heavily mixed breed cats/randombreds). We talked on Discord about how I discerned wsal as fully recessive, from info available in the publicly published scholar article, but refs are still just SO hard to come by and that info itself is hard to see plainly since they don't "state" it. It's more like context clues, when it comes to the studies TwT which can be SO frustrating!!

I remember trying to figure out the difference between the A18V and C63Y ticked tabby variants, the info is still difficult to parse, but from additional sources basically it's
Here is an interesting article on the past and more recent studies regarding tabby patterns and more specifically ticked, if anyone is interested in reading about it! (The language is dense if you don't have a post-secondary biology background, so I recommend not getting hung up on anything that doesn't make sense right away! Context is most important)

It describes why we no longer use Ta/Tm/Tb anymore, and instead have Ticked on it's own locus with TiA = TiCK > ti+