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The Journal of Heredity 1986:77(6):460-462
© 1986 The American Genetic Association 77:460-462

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Mutant allele frequencies in the cat population of Omaha, Nebraska

Timothy Halpine, and Sylvia Joann Kerr

The authors are affiliated with the Department of Biology, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota 55104. This study was supported by a Lund Fund bequest for undergraduate research to Hamline University.

Please address reprint requests to Dr. Kerr.

Abstract

The phenotypes of 256 cats seen in Omaha, Nebraska, during the summer of 1983 were recorded and compared to those of other midcontinental USA cat populations. When cats that were "pure-bred," or derived from pure breeds, were excluded, random breeding at the O locus was confirmed and mutant allele frequencies were: O = 0.352, a = 0.813, tb = 0.354, d = 0.525, I = 0.369, S = 0.197, and W = 0.039. Siamese and Himalayan cats constituted 10.9 percent of the total sample (cs = 0.342), but analysis suggests that they are not randomly mating with the general population. Mutant allele frequencies of Omaha cats are more similar to those of cats in Champaign, Illinois, than to those of St. Louis, suggesting that an overland route was more important than a river route in founding the Omaha cat population.


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