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Record bem-05, printed 30 August 2026. Every animal on this sheet has its own page and its own source at that address.

Nikita'l Seymour

prefix Nikita'l · Topaz · DBE-ALT · line: Blue Eyed Maine Coons (Markiss) · both eyes blue · Genotyped · also in its ancestry: Blue Eyed Maine Coons (Markiss)

Under the variant field this directory proposes, this cat would read DBE 163p. The variant is attributed to this animal from the record rather than from a result on it. The proposal is set out in full here, and no registry issues this field today: it is computed from the record at each build and is not part of any registration.

How this cat is connected to the trait

Nikita'l Seymour, XSH ns 03 23 68
Pushok, HCL e 22 62, the sire of Nikita'l Seymour. a founder of this survey; no variant has ever been identified in this line

That is one recorded parent link, and the animal at the end of it has never been tested, so the connection is a descent and not a result. Every step is a parent recorded in this register from a document; none of them is an assumption. The full genealogy is drawn below, and the sources for each animal are on its own page.

Bar on top is the grade: Genotyped Wild type Line-traced Reported ♂ male ♀ female blue not blue no eye colour recorded a photograph is held ⚑ a numbered flag marks a record the sources disagree on

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What is flagged on this tree

PUSHOK. THE NIKITA'L MATERIAL IS NOW CONFIRMED COMPLETE BY THREE REGISTRY SHEETS READ INDEPENDENTLY. Seymour's own sheet gives PUSHOK, HCL e 22 62, and ELIZA, XSH ns 02 69, and nothing above either. Pheer-Ca's gives ROXI, XXH n 24 68, KZ, and MARCH NIKITA'L, EUR n 03 62, and nothing above either. Markiss's gives all four. ON ALL THREE SHEETS EVERY CELL ABOVE THOSE FOUR READS 'No information in the database' | THE FOUR FOUNDATION ANIMALS ARE THE TOP OF THIS MATERIAL BY REGISTRY RECORD AND NOT BY ABSENCE OF SEARCHING. Taken with the cattery listing, which holds the two founders and no descendants at all, THE WHOLE OF WHAT ANY REGISTRY HOLDS ON THIS CATTERY IS NOW IN THIS REGISTER. Nothing further can be obtained from pedigree material and the prefix should not be chased again | TWO CODES STAND ON EACH SIDE OF MARKISS BEFORE HE IS BORN. His sire Seymour is 68 out of a 62 and a 69; his dam Pheer-Ca is 69 out of a 68 and a 62. THAT IS WHY EVERY LINE DESCENDING FROM HIM CARRIES BOTH, and it is visible on the sheet without any inference at all
PUSHOK. Eye and coat, THE STRONGEST EXCLUSION THIS REGISTER CAN MAKE FROM A CODE. This cat is blue-eyed in both eyes and its recorded coat carries NO WHITE SPOTTING CODE AT ALL, is not dominant white and is not colourpointed. NOTHING IN THE COAT CAN PALE AN IRIS. A dominant blue eye is present and it is not the KIT odd-eye case and not the white-cat case. Its registry has entered no dominant eye code on it. WHICH VARIANT IS NOT DEDUCIBLE FROM A COAT CODE and none is adopted: a genotype or a trace to a named founder would name it.
ELIZA. HOMOZYGOUS, NOT COMPOUND HETEROZYGOTE, IN THE BREEDER'S OWN WORDS, AND THE TWO ARE DIFFERENT CLAIMS. Her page says 'the last thing I expected from that pairing was a HOMOZYGOUS KITTEN'. Chart C4 writes 'DBE-CEL & DBE-ALT' beside him. HOMOZYGOUS MEANS TWO COPIES OF ONE ALLELE; COMPOUND HETEROZYGOTE MEANS ONE COPY EACH OF TWO DIFFERENT ONES. This register held the second reading and the breeder states the first. NEITHER IS A GENOTYPE and no laboratory result exists for him | THE WORD HOMOZYGOUS CANNOT BE RIGHT IN ITS STRICT SENSE, AND WHAT IT PROBABLY MEANS IS MORE INTERESTING THAN IF IT WERE. ALT AND CEL ARE ESTABLISHED AS SEPARATE VARIANTS in the published work this register holds: Abitbol and others 2024, 'Different Founding Effects Underlie Dominant Blue Eyes in the Domestic Cat', and 'A PAX3 insertion in the Celestial breed'. His dam KAENA runs to NIKITA'L SEYMOUR, who founds ALT; his sire LAZULI runs to ROXI, who founds CEL. A CAT TAKING ONE COPY FROM EACH IS A COMPOUND HETEROZYGOTE, ONE COPY EACH OF TWO DIFFERENT VARIANTS, AND NOT A HOMOZYGOTE. The breeder is almost certainly using homozygous loosely, to mean TWO DOSES OF DOMINANT BLUE EYE rather than two copies of one allele. THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT CHART C4 SAYS WHEN IT WRITES 'DBE-CEL & DBE-ALT' BESIDE HIM, so the chart and the pedigree agree with each other and the breeder's word is the odd one out | AND IT IS THE CASE THE BREEDING GUIDANCE WARNS ABOUT. Two dominant blue eye variants in one animal is precisely the mating the British Gems article, citing Abitbol, says should never be made. MIYUKI IS SOLID WHITE AND DEAF. Whether that is the consequence of carrying both, or of the white spotting reaching him from three directions, IS THE THING NO ONE CAN SEPARATE WITHOUT A TEST | AND THE COAT SAYS BE CAREFUL, WHICH IS WHY HE WAS TRACED. Four generations above him, WHITE SPOTTING REACHES HIM FROM THREE SEPARATE DIRECTIONS: ELIZA, XSH ns 02 69, A HARLEQUIN and herself coded 69; MARCH NIKITA'L, EUR n 03 62, A BICOLOUR; and NIKITA'L SEYMOUR, XSH ns 03 23 68 on the PawPeds reading, ALSO A BICOLOUR. MIYUKI IS SOLID WHITE AND DEAF. THAT IS ALSO EXACTLY WHAT A CAT CARRYING A GREAT DEAL OF WHITE SPOTTING LOOKS LIKE, and deafness is the classic consequence of white over the ear. HIS WHITENESS AND HIS DEAFNESS ARE NOT BY THEMSELVES EVIDENCE OF A HOMOZYGOUS EYE VARIANT, and a homozygous white-spotting cat and a homozygous eye-variant cat cannot be told apart by looking | WHAT ELSE HE COULD CARRY, ASKED AND ANSWERED. He could carry heavy white spotting from Eliza, March Nikita'l and Seymour. He could carry the 69 that Eliza and Pheer-Ca both show. NOTHING IN HIS RECORDED ANCESTRY SUGGESTS DOMINANT WHITE: no animal above him is coded w. NOTHING SUGGESTS THE POINTED GENE: no 33 anywhere. His four grandparents are Seymour, March Nikita'l, Roxi and an unnamed female the charts draw as '??' | HIS LITTERMATE MOCHI IS THE CONTROL AND IS NOT DEAF. Mochi is mostly white with a coloured patch, the Topaz panda pattern, and hears. TWO KITTENS OF ONE LITTER, BOTH LABELLED THE SAME BY THE CHART, ONE DEAF AND ONE NOT. If the label were a genotype they should not differ, and the amount and placement of white is the obvious thing that does differ | HE WAS NEUTERED AND PLACED, so no offspring will ever settle it. ONLY A TEST ON HIM WILL
NIKITA'L SEYMOUR. BREEDING RECOMMENDATIONS THE PAGE ATTRIBUTES TO PROFESSOR MARIE ABITBOL OF THE VETAGRO RESEARCH LABORATORY. THE RESEARCHER AND THE SUBJECT ARE REAL AND THIS REGISTER ALREADY HOLDS HER WORK: Abitbol and others 2024, 'Different Founding Effects Underlie Dominant Blue Eyes in the Domestic Cat', Animals 14(13):1845; Abitbol and others 2024, 'A PAX3 insertion in the Celestial breed and certain feline breeding lines with dominant blue eyes', Animal Genetics 55; Abitbol and others 2024, 'PAX3 haploinsufficiency in Maine Coon cats with dominant blue eyes and hearing loss resembling the human Waardenburg syndrome', G3; and Abitbol and others 2025, 'Dominant blue eyes in Maine Coon cats: new PAX3 variant and updated phenotypic data', Animal Genetics. BUT THE LIST OF RECOMMENDATIONS BELOW IS THE BREEDER'S RENDERING OF THEM AND THIS REGISTER HAS NOT CHECKED IT AGAINST THOSE PAPERS. A real researcher being correctly named does not make a lay summary of her advice accurate. RECORDED AS THE BREEDER STATES IT, ATTRIBUTED AS THE BREEDER ATTRIBUTES IT, AND NOT ADOPTED. WHERE THIS REGISTER NEEDS THE SCIENCE IT CITES THE PAPERS DIRECTLY. THE LIST: do not breed DBE bloodlines with colourpoint or colourpoint carriers; with cats that have white, meaning bicolour, harlequin or van; with pure white cats; with cats born from DBE marriages that are born LATENT with orange eyes; or with recessive odd eyed. AND: 'Mixing, accidentally or not, a dominant cat to another dominant cat EVEN IF LATENT, can cause severe health issues in the first or future generations and should never be done' | THE DANGERS NAMED: 'Deafness (Altai, Topaz), CRANIAL MALFORMATIONS (Ojos Azules, a breed abandoned by the LOOF and TICA in 2004 because of issues). Other things commonly seen in dominant odd eyed is a KINKED TAIL or NOSE SHAPES THAT ARE STRANGE, of form and small or not equal nostrils.' And: 'DOMINANT TO DOMINANT ALSO SEEMS TO PRODUCE KITTENS WITH A LARGE AMOUNT OF WHITE EVEN IF THE PARENTS ARE SOLID' | THAT LAST OBSERVATION BEARS DIRECTLY ON MIYUKI OF AERLIN. He is out of Kaena and Lazuli, both of dominant lines, HIS BREEDER CALLS HIM HOMOZYGOUS, and he is SOLID WHITE AND DEAF where both parents carry only a chin patch. THE PAGE PREDICTS EXACTLY THAT OUTCOME FROM EXACTLY THAT MATING, and it predicts it as a harm | THE REGISTER RECORDS THIS AS A BREEDER'S STATEMENT OF PRACTICE AND AS A HEALTH CLAIM ATTRIBUTED TO A NAMED RESEARCHER. It does not endorse it, it has not verified the attribution, and it makes no recommendation about breeding
NIKITA'L SEYMOUR. Line and variant. The line Blue Eyed Maine Coons (Markiss) holds more than one variant across its records (DBE-ALT, DBE-CEL).

A flag is not an error. It marks a place where two sources say different things, or where an attribution cannot be made on the evidence held.

The record

Register id: bem-05
Sex: male
Cattery prefix: Nikita'l
Breed, as stated: Topaz
Line: Blue Eyed Maine Coons (Markiss)
Variant: DBE-ALT
Eye status: blue: both eyes blue
Eyes, in the source's words: blue
Certificate wording: the from Sham cattery's own words: black-silver-tabby, ns 23 61, ALT Gen, blaue Augen. PawPeds gives XSH ns 03 23 68
Role: founder
Relations named by the source: out of Pushok by Eliza; mated to Nikita'l Pheer-Ca, sire of Nikita'l Markiss; mated to March Nikita'l, SIRE OF KAENA, who was then mated to Lazuli; mated to Silva, sire of Nikita'l Daisy. HE IS THE ALT FOUNDER AND HE STANDS ABOVE BOTH RECORDED CROSSINGS OF THE ALT AND CEL LINES
Country: Russia, registered in Ukraine
EMS code: XSH ns 03 23 68
The code read out: experimental shorthair; black silver; bicolour, mackerel tabby; dominant blue eyes, written in the 68 series
The description held: XSH ns 03 23 68, CODED 68. OUT OF PUSHOK, HCL e 22 62, ORANGE EYES, AND ELIZA, XSH ns 02 69, A DOMINANT ODD EYE. Both codes stand above him and the 68 is his own. He carries 03 bicolour white and 23 ticked tabby
Evidence grade: Line-traced descent from a named founder is stated by the source

In the register

Parents: Pushok, Eliza
Offspring recorded in this register; a cat may have others: Kaena, Nikita'l Daisy, Nikita'l Markiss [Cherkassy, UA]

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Source

the from Sham cattery's own published pedigree page for Cupcake Cinnamon SuperQueen, cattery-from-sham.de, read 25 August 2026. A BREEDER-PUBLISHED FOUR-GENERATION CHART giving colour and eye in German and in EMS fragments, WITH FILIAL GENERATION NUMBERS ON THREE ANIMALS and the annotation 'ALT Gen, blaue Augen' on three. It heads the subject 'BRL (F3), odd eyed (dominant), chocolate smoke' and prints the parents of Silva as '??????? @Mail ru' | and the PawPeds pedigrees for Nikita'l Seymour, Nikita'l Pheer-Ca and Nikita'l Markiss | and the PawPeds cattery listing for the Nikita'l prefix | and the Blue Eyed Maine Coons breeder-compiled genealogy | DUPLICATE FOLD, 27 August 2026. This animal stood on more than one record because it was entered from more than one breeder chart. The records are now one. The surviving record carries the pedigree and the offspring; the folded record carried neither, and everything it held is written here against its own source (alt-01b). THAT SOURCE: Iryna Merzlenko, relayed through messybeast.com 13 August 2026: Fyodor and Nikita'l Seymour are two separate cats carrying the same variant. Fyodor is the black cat, Nikita'l Seymour the silver tabby of the Topaz. Coded from the C4, C6, C7 and C10 charts. Written on this chart as Seymour, also given as Seimur; Nikita'l Seymour is the registered form. PawPeds pedigrees P26 and P27, read 15 August 2026. P26 Blue Ridge Ynjir, M, XLH n 09 68, 8 January 2018, RU, INBREEDING 0.0 PER CENT, twenty-two ancestors of thirty possible, twenty-one unique, three complete generations of four. P27 Blue Ridge Tamara, F, XLH n 09 68, 3 December 2017, RU, INBREEDING 0.0 PER CENT, twenty-two ancestors of thirty possible, twenty-two unique, three complete generations of four. THE OUTCROSS IS ON THE REGISTER AND IT WAS MADE TWICE, OVER TWO UNRELATED MAINE COON QUEENS: Nikita'l Markiss [Cherkassy, UA], XLH ns 03 68, 26 March 2016, over Celebrity, MCO n, 20 November 2016, RU, and over Big Kitty Hello Kitty, MCO n, 23 September 2010, NO to RU. Both dams are registered MCO with four generations of Maine Coon ancestry and neither holds any cat of the Roxi or Seymour lines; both offspring are registered XLH, experimental longhair, and both carry eye code 68. Celebrity's ancestry is Russian: A'Mars MCO n 09 22, 8 November 2014; Blue Ridge Ingrid MCO n 09, 16 December 2014; Samurai De La Coon MCO n 22; Blue Ridge Acacia MCO n 09, 21 March 2013; AzovStarCat Demon MCO n, 29 March 2013; Blue Ridge Elisa MCO a 09, 16 April 2013; Elton Lucky Bargee MCO n 22, 18 December 2009; Azov Coon Anjelina MCO f 09 22; Blue Ridge Neptune MCO a 09, 14 March 2012, twice; Langstteich's N'Xanta-Lucia MCO f, 9 September 2008, DE to RU; RusFairyTail Zaharee MCO d 22, 14 November 2008; Dream Blue Chanelcoon MCO a, 1 January 2012; and Ellincat Kristy MCO a 09, 28 October 2011. Big Kitty Hello Kitty's is a wholly separate western European set: Mainefield's Hey Joe MCO n, 7 July 2008, AT to NO; Big Kitty Kalia MCO n 22, 25 November 2006, NO; CH Summerplace Avalon MCO ds, 5 August 2007, DE to AT; Galadriela Silvi-Cola MCO fs, 22 March 2005, PL to AT; IC Langstteich's P'Willow MCO n, 31 March 2005, DE to NO; Langstteich's Jade MCO n 24, 15 June 2005, DE to NO; Q's Blue Bear of Magic Love MCO as, 22 August 2006, DE; Summerplace Tessa MCO f, 21 December 2006, DE; IC Escape's Never Ending MCO d 22, 13 November 2003, FI to PL; Chickabee Silvi-Cola MCO ns 09, 9 February 2004, PL; Langstteich's C.C.O'Predicat MCO a, 7 March 2003, DE; Timaracoon's Pretty Woman MCO n, 14 February 2004, NL to DE; EC Belmondo of Belmicoon MCO n 09 24, 18 February 1999, PL; and Langstteich's Jamaica MCO a 22, 27 May 2003, DE. THE SIRE SIDE IS IDENTICAL IN BOTH PEDIGREES AND CONFIRMS THE BREEDER GENEALOGY NODE FOR NODE: Nikita'l Seymour XSH ns 03 23 68 over Nikita'l Pheer-Ca XSH n 24 69; Seymour out of Pushok HCL e 22 62 by Eliza XSH ns 02 69; Pheer-Ca out of Roxi XXH n 24 68, KZ, by March Nikita'l EUR n 03 62. Every one of the eight positions above Pushok, Eliza, Roxi and March Nikita'l reads 'No information in the database', so the registered record ends at the same four animals the chart ends at. TWO RECORDS OF PUSHOK'S EYE COLOUR AND THEY DIFFER: genealogy C7 draws him with two blue eye marks and gives him no code, and the registered pedigree codes him HCL e 22 62, orange. No photograph has been found and neither record resolves the other. THE TWO ARE PHOTOGRAPHED ON C6 WITH CLOSELY SIMILAR SILVER TABBY MARKINGS. THE CHART ITSELF DOES NOT MAKE THEM FATHER AND SON: it draws Seimur out of Pushok by Eliza, and gives Roksi the daughters Dirka and Firka by Marta. The resemblance is recorded and no parentage is drawn from it, since coat pattern does not establish descent. WHAT WOULD FOLLOW IF THE C6 PARENTAGE HOLDS. NEITHER FOUNDER HAS BEEN GENOTYPED: Roksi, Nikita'l Seymour and Fyodor are all line-traced or reported here, and the variants are attributed to their lines through descendants that were tested. C6 draws Seimur out of Pushok by Eliza, so he and Roksi are unrelated and the two variants enter the Topaz by two separate founders. THE COATS CONFIRM IT AT A LOCUS: neither Roksi, XXH n 24 68, nor Marta, EUR n 03 62, carries the silver marker s; silver is dominant, so neither could pass an I, and Seimur is silver, ns. Two non-silver parents cannot produce a silver kitten. THE TWO FOUNDERS ALSO DIFFER ON WHITE, AND IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION: Seimur is coded 03, bicolour, and has a genuine white chest, so the KIT route is available as an ordinary explanation of his own blue eyes. Roksi carries no white code, and his pale chin is golden ground rather than white, but messybeast.com gives him white hind feet, which the golden ground does not explain. His white is therefore unresolved and no route is closed off on him. The white on one and not the other is therefore a coded difference and not a matter of reading photographs. THE PUBLISHED GENOTYPING IS TAKEN AS ACCURATE AS PUBLISHED and the survey does not go beyond what it states. THE TWO SOURCES DIFFER AND BOTH READINGS STAND: country is given as Russia; given also as Russia and Ukraine on the folded record and Russia, registered in Ukraine here; line is given as Altai / Nikita'l Seymour on the folded record and Blue Eyed Maine Coons (Markiss) here | DUPLICATE FOLD, 27 August 2026. This animal stood on more than one record because it was entered from more than one breeder chart. The records are now one. The surviving record carries the pedigree and the offspring; the folded record carried neither, and everything it held is written here against its own source (alp-03). THAT SOURCE: breeder-compiled genealogy C7, 'Blue-Eyed Siberians (Altai Gene)', close-ups read 13 August 2026. Written on this chart as Seymour, also given as Seimur; Nikita'l Seymour is the registered form. PawPeds pedigrees P26 and P27, read 15 August 2026. P26 Blue Ridge Ynjir, M, XLH n 09 68, 8 January 2018, RU, INBREEDING 0.0 PER CENT, twenty-two ancestors of thirty possible, twenty-one unique, three complete generations of four. P27 Blue Ridge Tamara, F, XLH n 09 68, 3 December 2017, RU, INBREEDING 0.0 PER CENT, twenty-two ancestors of thirty possible, twenty-two unique, three complete generations of four. THE OUTCROSS IS ON THE REGISTER AND IT WAS MADE TWICE, OVER TWO UNRELATED MAINE COON QUEENS: Nikita'l Markiss [Cherkassy, UA], XLH ns 03 68, 26 March 2016, over Celebrity, MCO n, 20 November 2016, RU, and over Big Kitty Hello Kitty, MCO n, 23 September 2010, NO to RU. Both dams are registered MCO with four generations of Maine Coon ancestry and neither holds any cat of the Roxi or Seymour lines; both offspring are registered XLH, experimental longhair, and both carry eye code 68. Celebrity's ancestry is Russian: A'Mars MCO n 09 22, 8 November 2014; Blue Ridge Ingrid MCO n 09, 16 December 2014; Samurai De La Coon MCO n 22; Blue Ridge Acacia MCO n 09, 21 March 2013; AzovStarCat Demon MCO n, 29 March 2013; Blue Ridge Elisa MCO a 09, 16 April 2013; Elton Lucky Bargee MCO n 22, 18 December 2009; Azov Coon Anjelina MCO f 09 22; Blue Ridge Neptune MCO a 09, 14 March 2012, twice; Langstteich's N'Xanta-Lucia MCO f, 9 September 2008, DE to RU; RusFairyTail Zaharee MCO d 22, 14 November 2008; Dream Blue Chanelcoon MCO a, 1 January 2012; and Ellincat Kristy MCO a 09, 28 October 2011. Big Kitty Hello Kitty's is a wholly separate western European set: Mainefield's Hey Joe MCO n, 7 July 2008, AT to NO; Big Kitty Kalia MCO n 22, 25 November 2006, NO; CH Summerplace Avalon MCO ds, 5 August 2007, DE to AT; Galadriela Silvi-Cola MCO fs, 22 March 2005, PL to AT; IC Langstteich's P'Willow MCO n, 31 March 2005, DE to NO; Langstteich's Jade MCO n 24, 15 June 2005, DE to NO; Q's Blue Bear of Magic Love MCO as, 22 August 2006, DE; Summerplace Tessa MCO f, 21 December 2006, DE; IC Escape's Never Ending MCO d 22, 13 November 2003, FI to PL; Chickabee Silvi-Cola MCO ns 09, 9 February 2004, PL; Langstteich's C.C.O'Predicat MCO a, 7 March 2003, DE; Timaracoon's Pretty Woman MCO n, 14 February 2004, NL to DE; EC Belmondo of Belmicoon MCO n 09 24, 18 February 1999, PL; and Langstteich's Jamaica MCO a 22, 27 May 2003, DE. THE SIRE SIDE IS IDENTICAL IN BOTH PEDIGREES AND CONFIRMS THE BREEDER GENEALOGY NODE FOR NODE: Nikita'l Seymour XSH ns 03 23 68 over Nikita'l Pheer-Ca XSH n 24 69; Seymour out of Pushok HCL e 22 62 by Eliza XSH ns 02 69; Pheer-Ca out of Roxi XXH n 24 68, KZ, by March Nikita'l EUR n 03 62. Every one of the eight positions above Pushok, Eliza, Roxi and March Nikita'l reads 'No information in the database', so the registered record ends at the same four animals the chart ends at. TWO RECORDS OF PUSHOK'S EYE COLOUR AND THEY DIFFER: genealogy C7 draws him with two blue eye marks and gives him no code, and the registered pedigree codes him HCL e 22 62, orange. No photograph has been found and neither record resolves the other. THE TWO ARE PHOTOGRAPHED ON C6 WITH CLOSELY SIMILAR SILVER TABBY MARKINGS. THE CHART ITSELF DOES NOT MAKE THEM FATHER AND SON: it draws Seimur out of Pushok by Eliza, and gives Roksi the daughters Dirka and Firka by Marta. The resemblance is recorded and no parentage is drawn from it, since coat pattern does not establish descent. WHAT WOULD FOLLOW IF THE C6 PARENTAGE HOLDS. NEITHER FOUNDER HAS BEEN GENOTYPED: Roksi, Nikita'l Seymour and Fyodor are all line-traced or reported here, and the variants are attributed to their lines through descendants that were tested. C6 draws Seimur out of Pushok by Eliza, so he and Roksi are unrelated and the two variants enter the Topaz by two separate founders. THE COATS CONFIRM IT AT A LOCUS: neither Roksi, XXH n 24 68, nor Marta, EUR n 03 62, carries the silver marker s; silver is dominant, so neither could pass an I, and Seimur is silver, ns. Two non-silver parents cannot produce a silver kitten. THE TWO FOUNDERS ALSO DIFFER ON WHITE, AND IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION: Seimur is coded 03, bicolour, and has a genuine white chest, so the KIT route is available as an ordinary explanation of his own blue eyes. Roksi carries no white code, and his pale chin is golden ground rather than white, but messybeast.com gives him white hind feet, which the golden ground does not explain. His white is therefore unresolved and no route is closed off on him. The white on one and not the other is therefore a coded difference and not a matter of reading photographs. THE PUBLISHED GENOTYPING IS TAKEN AS ACCURATE AS PUBLISHED and the survey does not go beyond what it states. THE TWO SOURCES DIFFER AND BOTH READINGS STAND: line is given as Siberian (C7), from a DBE^ALT to DBE^CEL mating on the folded record and Blue Eyed Maine Coons (Markiss) here; words is given as silver tabby on the folded record and the from Sham cattery's own words: black-silver-tabby, ns 23 61, ALT Gen, blaue Augen. PawPeds gives XSH ns 03 23 68 here

This directory is a working aid compiled from published charts, registry documents and breeder statements. It is not a register and it has no standing of any kind. The grade attaches to the animal, not to the line: a cat whose ancestor was genotyped is line-traced, not genotyped.