Figure 2.

Pedigree of cats segregating for the Japanese Bobtail tail phenotype. Squares are males, circles are females, diamonds are unknown. Cats with filled symbols have the kinked tail trait from the Japanese Bobtail; open symbols indicate a normal, straight (wild-type) tail. Arrow indicates the proband homozygous pedigreed Japanese Bobtail. Small symbols are stillborn kittens with unknown tail type; symbols with a slash indicate dead cats. Cats with a lower left filled circle were radiographed. Cat with the ‘H’ (13229) was submitted for pathology of the tail