title: The sex-linked black cat fallacy: a textbook case.
abstract: Textbook presentations of the genetics of coat color in cats are compared with research literature on cat genetics. There is general failure of the textbook authors to identify mutants by contrast with wild-type standard, thus leading to the erroneous conclusion that black is sex-linked and allelic with yellow.
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats / Q000235:genetics*; D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D005260:Female; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D005838:Genotype; D006200:Hair Color; D008297:Male; D012730:Sex Chromosomes