Wild type

Wild Type
Wild Type - basic form of a species in the cat, the wild type is the short haired brown, striped tabby
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Wild Type: The typical form of an organism, strain, gene, or characteristic as it occurs in nature, as distinguished from mutant forms that may result from selective breeding. For cats, this is the shorthaired brown-striped tabby.

It has been theorised that Sphynx hairlessness might be produced by an allele of the same gene that produces the Devon Rex (re), with the Sphynx allele being incompletely dominant over the Devon allele and both recessive to the wild type.

The Sphynx allele is incompletely dominant over the Devon allele; both are recessive to the wild type.

Conditional Mutation - A mutation that has wild type phenotype under particular (permissive) environmental conditions and mutant phenotype under other (restrictive) conditions.

See also: Recessive, Outcross, Tortie, Crossbred, Cattery