![]() Other Siberians had been registered as black silver tortie tabby, but were more likely to be sunshine silver colour. The only link she found was that every bimetallic Siberian she saw had close Polish ancestry. The effect was beyond the rufousing or breakthrough colouring sometimes seen in silver tabbies and in some cats the golden areas increased as the kittens grew into adulthood. Judge Lesley Morgan come across a number of strangely coloured Siberian cats that had been nicknamed "bimetallic" as they displayed a mix of silver tabby and golden tabby in their coats. A golden Persian has wide-band and either has no inhibitor gene or has a recessive form of the inhibitor gene (until the DNA mutation is identified this is uncertain). pink) or match the colour at the hair tip. The classic golden colour found in Persian cats is due to the wide-band (Wb) effect which widens the pale brown area at the base of each agouti (banded) hair and confines the darker colour to the ends of the hairs. Currently the DNA mutations for silver and Wideband have not been identified. The variability of the wide band suggests we should talk about Wb, Wb+ and Wb++ to describe cats with normal, intermediate and greater degrees of Wide Banding. Through selective breeding, this effect has been maximised. In ticked tabby cats without silver, Wide Band restricts the pigment to the end of the hair leaving a pale golden band between the skin and the pigment. Although "Wb" is treated as a single gene for simplicity, it appears to act as polygenes with an additive effect. Wide Band is independent from the Inhibitor gene in golden cats, the dominant Inhibitor is absent, but wide band is present. There is a misconception that when a cat with a silver parent isn't silver, it must be golden by default. In Persians, Exotics and British Shorthairs, golden seems to result from with the wide band gene(s) and many of the cats have silver (dominant Inhibitor gene) somewhere in their ancestry because the wide band effect was selectively increased when breeding for very pale chinchillas. This meant that Siberian cats registered as "golden" by FIFE or TICA are re-registered as brown tabby (etc) when transferred into GCCF. Siberian "Golden Tabby (with or without white)," "Golden Tortie Tabby (with or without white)," "Golden Shaded" etc are not viewed as a genetic colour, but as a colour expression of Brown Tabby due to wide agouti banding on the hair shafts which limits the black banding and gives a warmer, brighter tone. This is not recognised as "golden" by Britain's GCCF (a very conservative cat fancy). ![]() Some registries recognise the "golden series" in Siberians. The colours not recognised are chocolate/lilac, cinnamon/fawn, caramel/apricot in any pattern. ![]() The Siberian is recognised in most colours and patterns, including colourpoints (Neva Masquerade), but not mink or Burmese colour restriction. Note: Corin is also known as “Variable wideband†and uses the symbols VWB+ (wild type), vwbSIB, vwbeSIB, vwbBSH. In earlier versions of this article, "extreme sunshine" (wbESIB) was called "copper" (cuSIB). ![]() For more pictures and explanations please look at and select Sunshine_Colour_EN_Webinar. "Bi-metallic" was a nickname for cats showing both silver and golden in their coat i.e. Pallavicino and was proposed for the first time by M. The name "sunshine" comes from the joint work of E. Note on Terminology: "Sunshine" is the genetic name for the golden colour in Siberian Cats. Catteries: Veselka - Silvia Perego Matiblue - Erika Schiavone Kilgharrah - Eleonora Ruggiero VivaLaVita - *RU Ekaterina Kudoshina Simbircit - *BY Lilia Vasilieva Burian s Secret - Denise Bertasi. This page is an English language web version of her presentation to make the information as widely accessible as possible. The illustration photos of the different phenotypes are copyright of the following catteries that have allowed Eleonora Ruggiero to use the images to help understanding of Siberian Sunshine mutation. Many thanks to Silvia Perego, Eleonora Ruggiero and Lesley Morgan for allowing the use of their photographs and information on this page. CORIN GENE: SUNSHINE AND SUNSHINE SILVER (BIMETAL) SIBERIANSĢ013-2022, Eleonora Ruggiero, Sarah Hartwell
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