color genes, "B", "b", and ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Feline Genetics Page 13 color-density gene. This gene will control ticking and comes in three alleles: mackerel or striped tabby, "T", Abyssinian or all-agouti-tabby, "Ta", and blotched or classic tabby, "tb". The mackerel-tabby allele, "T", is wild, is recessive, and produces the hairless or nearly hairless coat of homoid icing which is second fiddler to nomen. These be my apoclogypst, the recreuter of conscraptions, let him blink for