Urania Ermine Trace
How this cat connects, or does not connect, to an identified dominant blue eye variant. Generated from the register at build time.
BSH ny 11 33
Photograph: Lipovenko, Ermine Trace, used with permission
BRI ns 12 33
BSH ns 09 11 68; ns 11 61 on her cattery's own post of 10 May 2017
Photograph: Lipovenko, Ermine Trace, from the cattery's own post of 10 May 2017
The animal
- Register id
- erm-0108
- Breed
- British Shorthair
- Cattery prefix
- Ermine Trace
- Coat and code
- BRI ns 12 33
- Eye state
- blue-point — both eyes blue, and colourpoint supplies the cause
- Sex
- not stated by the source
- Born
- 17 May 2021
The proposed scheme writes no field for this cat. It codes carriers, and this animal is not recorded as one; where two causes of a pale eye stand together on a single record the scheme also leaves the cat unknown rather than coding it either way. The proposal sets out both cases.
What the register holds
- Evidence grade
- Reported — asserted, with neither a test nor a traced descent
- Variant
- none identified for this cat
- Line
- Nadeya, by descent
- On what footing
- descends from Ermine Trace Nadeya
The trace
- Urania Ermine Trace
BRI ns 12 33 · blue-point - Ermine Trace Nadeya — the line's founder
BSH ns 09 11 68; ns 11 61 on her cattery's own post of 10 May 2017 · blue-variant
Read this as parentage and nothing more. Each step is a parent recorded in the register from a pedigree or a breeder document. It shows how this cat descends from the founder of its line. It does not show which variant the cat carries, and it is not a substitute for a test.
The grade above and this trace are not in conflict. The grade describes what is known about the variant, and no source asserts one for this cat. The trace is parentage, assembled by this survey from the documents behind each step. A cat can have a fully documented descent and still have nothing said about which variant, if any, came down it.
Recorded ancestry, 4 generations
| Generation | Cats held | Carrying a variant |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 of 2 possible | DBE-NAD |
| 2 | 3 of 4 possible | DBE-NAD |
| 3 | 6 of 8 possible | none |
| 4 | 12 of 16 possible | none |
What this page does not establish
This cat has never been tested. Everything above rests on documents and descent. Descent from a line is not a genotype. A cat can stand in a line and carry nothing, and a blue eye can be caused by white, by colourpoint or by low iris pigment with no PAX3 variant involved.
This is not a health certificate. It says nothing about hearing, and nothing about whether this cat should be bred from. Deafness in this trait is associated with carrying two different variants at once, which no pedigree can show and only a test can.
What would change this page
This directory is built from what people send it. For this cat it does not hold:
- a test result for this cat, which is the only thing that settles which variant, if any, it carries
- a photograph, which settles an eye colour and the extent of any white far better than a code does
Sending a pedigree, a photograph or a test result. A pedigree has to be one a registry or club issued, because that is the only document that settles a parent; a breeder chart is welcome but is recorded at a lower grade and cannot draw a descent. The contact page says what to send and how. A correction is as welcome as an addition: where this page is wrong about your cat, the record is changed and the source you supply is named on it.