Nikita'l Daisy

prefix Nikita'l · British Shorthair · DBE-ALT · both eyes blue · Genotyped · also in its ancestry: Blue Eyed Maine Coons (Markiss), Topaz foundation (C6 and C11)

Under the variant field this directory proposes, this cat would read DBE 163p. The variant is attributed to this animal from the record rather than from a result on it. The proposal is set out in full here, and no registry issues this field today: it is computed from the record at each build and is not part of any registration.

How this cat is connected to the trait

1. Nikita'l Daisy, BRI F1, ns 61
2. Nikita'l Seymour, XSH ns 03 23 68, the sire of Nikita'l Daisy. DBE-ALT, adopted by this survey; a founder of this survey

That is one recorded parent link, and the animal at the end of it carries a variant this survey has adopted, but has not itself been tested. Every step is a parent recorded in this register from a document; none of them is an assumption. The full genealogy is drawn below, and the sources for each animal are on its own page.

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What is flagged on this tree

1. PUSHOK. THE NIKITA'L MATERIAL IS NOW CONFIRMED COMPLETE BY THREE REGISTRY SHEETS READ INDEPENDENTLY. Seymour's own sheet gives PUSHOK, HCL e 22 62, and ELIZA, XSH ns 02 69, and nothing above either. Pheer-Ca's gives ROXI, XXH n 24 68, KZ, and MARCH NIKITA'L, EUR n 03 62, and nothing above either. Markiss's gives all four. ON ALL THREE SHEETS EVERY CELL ABOVE THOSE FOUR READS 'No information in the database' | THE FOUR FOUNDATION ANIMALS ARE THE TOP OF THIS MATERIAL BY REGISTRY RECORD AND NOT BY ABSENCE OF SEARCHING. Taken with the cattery listing, which holds the two founders and no descendants at all, THE WHOLE OF WHAT ANY REGISTRY HOLDS ON THIS CATTERY IS NOW IN THIS REGISTER. Nothing further can be obtained from pedigree material and the prefix should not be chased again | TWO CODES STAND ON EACH SIDE OF MARKISS BEFORE HE IS BORN. His sire Seymour is 68 out of a 62 and a 69; his dam Pheer-Ca is 69 out of a 68 and a 62. THAT IS WHY EVERY LINE DESCENDING FROM HIM CARRIES BOTH, and it is visible on the sheet without any inference at all
2. PUSHOK. Eye and coat, THE STRONGEST EXCLUSION THIS REGISTER CAN MAKE FROM A CODE. This cat is blue-eyed in both eyes and its recorded coat carries NO WHITE SPOTTING CODE AT ALL, is not dominant white and is not colourpointed. NOTHING IN THE COAT CAN PALE AN IRIS. A dominant blue eye is present and it is not the KIT odd-eye case and not the white-cat case. Its registry has entered no dominant eye code on it. WHICH VARIANT IS NOT DEDUCIBLE FROM A COAT CODE and none is adopted: a genotype or a trace to a named founder would name it.
3. ELIZA. HOMOZYGOUS, NOT COMPOUND HETEROZYGOTE, IN THE BREEDER'S OWN WORDS, AND THE TWO ARE DIFFERENT CLAIMS. Her page says 'the last thing I expected from that pairing was a HOMOZYGOUS KITTEN'. Chart C4 writes 'DBE-CEL & DBE-ALT' beside him. HOMOZYGOUS MEANS TWO COPIES OF ONE ALLELE; COMPOUND HETEROZYGOTE MEANS ONE COPY EACH OF TWO DIFFERENT ONES. This register held the second reading and the breeder states the first. NEITHER IS A GENOTYPE and no laboratory result exists for him | THE WORD HOMOZYGOUS CANNOT BE RIGHT IN ITS STRICT SENSE, AND WHAT IT PROBABLY MEANS IS MORE INTERESTING THAN IF IT WERE. ALT AND CEL ARE ESTABLISHED AS SEPARATE VARIANTS in the published work this register holds: Abitbol and others 2024, 'Different Founding Effects Underlie Dominant Blue Eyes in the Domestic Cat', and 'A PAX3 insertion in the Celestial breed'. His dam KAENA runs to NIKITA'L SEYMOUR, who founds ALT; his sire LAZULI runs to ROXI, who founds CEL. A CAT TAKING ONE COPY FROM EACH IS A COMPOUND HETEROZYGOTE, ONE COPY EACH OF TWO DIFFERENT VARIANTS, AND NOT A HOMOZYGOTE. The breeder is almost certainly using homozygous loosely, to mean TWO DOSES OF DOMINANT BLUE EYE rather than two copies of one allele. THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT CHART C4 SAYS WHEN IT WRITES 'DBE-CEL & DBE-ALT' BESIDE HIM, so the chart and the pedigree agree with each other and the breeder's word is the odd one out | AND IT IS THE CASE THE BREEDING GUIDANCE WARNS ABOUT. Two dominant blue eye variants in one animal is precisely the mating the British Gems article, citing Abitbol, says should never be made. MIYUKI IS SOLID WHITE AND DEAF. Whether that is the consequence of carrying both, or of the white spotting reaching him from three directions, IS THE THING NO ONE CAN SEPARATE WITHOUT A TEST | AND THE COAT SAYS BE CAREFUL, WHICH IS WHY HE WAS TRACED. Four generations above him, WHITE SPOTTING REACHES HIM FROM THREE SEPARATE DIRECTIONS: ELIZA, XSH ns 02 69, A HARLEQUIN and herself coded 69; MARCH NIKITA'L, EUR n 03 62, A BICOLOUR; and NIKITA'L SEYMOUR, XSH ns 03 23 68 on the PawPeds reading, ALSO A BICOLOUR. MIYUKI IS SOLID WHITE AND DEAF. THAT IS ALSO EXACTLY WHAT A CAT CARRYING A GREAT DEAL OF WHITE SPOTTING LOOKS LIKE, and deafness is the classic consequence of white over the ear. HIS WHITENESS AND HIS DEAFNESS ARE NOT BY THEMSELVES EVIDENCE OF A HOMOZYGOUS EYE VARIANT, and a homozygous white-spotting cat and a homozygous eye-variant cat cannot be told apart by looking | WHAT ELSE HE COULD CARRY, ASKED AND ANSWERED. He could carry heavy white spotting from Eliza, March Nikita'l and Seymour. He could carry the 69 that Eliza and Pheer-Ca both show. NOTHING IN HIS RECORDED ANCESTRY SUGGESTS DOMINANT WHITE: no animal above him is coded w. NOTHING SUGGESTS THE POINTED GENE: no 33 anywhere. His four grandparents are Seymour, March Nikita'l, Roxi and an unnamed female the charts draw as '??' | HIS LITTERMATE MOCHI IS THE CONTROL AND IS NOT DEAF. Mochi is mostly white with a coloured patch, the Topaz panda pattern, and hears. TWO KITTENS OF ONE LITTER, BOTH LABELLED THE SAME BY THE CHART, ONE DEAF AND ONE NOT. If the label were a genotype they should not differ, and the amount and placement of white is the obvious thing that does differ | HE WAS NEUTERED AND PLACED, so no offspring will ever settle it. ONLY A TEST ON HIM WILL
4. NIKITA'L SEYMOUR. BREEDING RECOMMENDATIONS THE PAGE ATTRIBUTES TO PROFESSOR MARIE ABITBOL OF THE VETAGRO RESEARCH LABORATORY. THE RESEARCHER AND THE SUBJECT ARE REAL AND THIS REGISTER ALREADY HOLDS HER WORK: Abitbol and others 2024, 'Different Founding Effects Underlie Dominant Blue Eyes in the Domestic Cat', Animals 14(13):1845; Abitbol and others 2024, 'A PAX3 insertion in the Celestial breed and certain feline breeding lines with dominant blue eyes', Animal Genetics 55; Abitbol and others 2024, 'PAX3 haploinsufficiency in Maine Coon cats with dominant blue eyes and hearing loss resembling the human Waardenburg syndrome', G3; and Abitbol and others 2025, 'Dominant blue eyes in Maine Coon cats: new PAX3 variant and updated phenotypic data', Animal Genetics. BUT THE LIST OF RECOMMENDATIONS BELOW IS THE BREEDER'S RENDERING OF THEM AND THIS REGISTER HAS NOT CHECKED IT AGAINST THOSE PAPERS. A real researcher being correctly named does not make a lay summary of her advice accurate. RECORDED AS THE BREEDER STATES IT, ATTRIBUTED AS THE BREEDER ATTRIBUTES IT, AND NOT ADOPTED. WHERE THIS REGISTER NEEDS THE SCIENCE IT CITES THE PAPERS DIRECTLY. THE LIST: do not breed DBE bloodlines with colourpoint or colourpoint carriers; with cats that have white, meaning bicolour, harlequin or van; with pure white cats; with cats born from DBE marriages that are born LATENT with orange eyes; or with recessive odd eyed. AND: 'Mixing, accidentally or not, a dominant cat to another dominant cat EVEN IF LATENT, can cause severe health issues in the first or future generations and should never be done' | THE DANGERS NAMED: 'Deafness (Altai, Topaz), CRANIAL MALFORMATIONS (Ojos Azules, a breed abandoned by the LOOF and TICA in 2004 because of issues). Other things commonly seen in dominant odd eyed is a KINKED TAIL or NOSE SHAPES THAT ARE STRANGE, of form and small or not equal nostrils.' And: 'DOMINANT TO DOMINANT ALSO SEEMS TO PRODUCE KITTENS WITH A LARGE AMOUNT OF WHITE EVEN IF THE PARENTS ARE SOLID' | THAT LAST OBSERVATION BEARS DIRECTLY ON MIYUKI OF AERLIN. He is out of Kaena and Lazuli, both of dominant lines, HIS BREEDER CALLS HIM HOMOZYGOUS, and he is SOLID WHITE AND DEAF where both parents carry only a chin patch. THE PAGE PREDICTS EXACTLY THAT OUTCOME FROM EXACTLY THAT MATING, and it predicts it as a harm | THE REGISTER RECORDS THIS AS A BREEDER'S STATEMENT OF PRACTICE AND AS A HEALTH CLAIM ATTRIBUTED TO A NAMED RESEARCHER. It does not endorse it, it has not verified the attribution, and it makes no recommendation about breeding
5. NIKITA'L SEYMOUR. Line and variant. The line Blue Eyed Maine Coons (Markiss) holds more than one variant across its records (DBE-ALT, DBE-CEL).
6. SILVA. THE CATTERY WRITES 61 ON THREE CONSECUTIVE GENERATIONS AND CALLS IT THE ALT GENE EACH TIME. The descent on its own published page runs SEYMOUR, black-silver-tabby, ns 23 61, 'ALT Gen, blaue Augen'; to NIKITAL DAISY, BRI F1, ns 61, 'ALT Gen, blaue Augen'; to AURORA SUPERQUEEN, BRI F2, bs 61, 'ALT Gen, blaue Augen'; to CUPCAKE CINNAMON SUPERQUEEN, BRL (F3), 'ODD EYED (DOMINANT)', chocolate smoke. THAT IS A BREEDER USING 61 FOR WHAT PAWPEDS WRITES 68, AND SAYING SO IN WORDS | WHAT IT SETTLES. This register has held the 61 against 68 difference as an unexplained inconsistency between sources, on Yoshiki Ermine Trace, on British Gems Alora and elsewhere. THE FROM SHAM PAGE SHOWS ONE CAUSE OF IT DIRECTLY: a cattery writing 61, the ordinary blue-eye code, on animals it states carry a named dominant variant. EVERY 61 IN THIS REGISTER ON A COAT WITHOUT WHITE IS THEREFORE A CANDIDATE 68, and the register's counts drawn from 68 and 69 alone understate | IT ALSO RESOLVES THE CUPCAKE CODE CONFLICT. His own PawPeds sheet gives BLH bs with NO eye code. The PawPeds cattery listing gives BSH bs 69. THE CATTERY'S OWN PAGE GIVES BRL, WHICH IS BRITISH LONGHAIR AND SO AGREES WITH THE SHEET ON BREED, AND 'ODD EYED (DOMINANT)', WHICH AGREES WITH THE LISTING ON THE EYE. Two of three on each point. The register adopts British Longhair and a dominant odd eye | AND IT FILLS A PEDIGREE PAWPEDS RETURNED EMPTY. Cupcake's own PawPeds sheet returned ZERO ancestors of thirty, every cell blank. THIS PAGE GIVES FOUR GENERATIONS. The Superqueen origin question is now answered as far as any document goes: THE LINE RUNS TO SEYMOUR THROUGH NIKITA'L DAISY AND AURORA SUPERQUEEN, AND IT STOPS AT SILVA, whose parents the cattery itself prints as '??????? @Mail ru' | THE F NUMBERS ARE A BREEDING PROGRAMME WRITTEN DOWN. F1 Daisy, F2 Aurora, F3 Cupcake. Each generation is bred back to an unrelated from Sham or Great Fate cat and the eye is kept. THAT IS DELIBERATE INTROGRESSION OF A VARIANT INTO A BREED, recorded by the breeder in the ordinary course of publishing a pedigree
7. NIKITA'L DAISY. THE CATTERY WRITES 61 ON THREE CONSECUTIVE GENERATIONS AND CALLS IT THE ALT GENE EACH TIME. The descent on its own published page runs SEYMOUR, black-silver-tabby, ns 23 61, 'ALT Gen, blaue Augen'; to NIKITAL DAISY, BRI F1, ns 61, 'ALT Gen, blaue Augen'; to AURORA SUPERQUEEN, BRI F2, bs 61, 'ALT Gen, blaue Augen'; to CUPCAKE CINNAMON SUPERQUEEN, BRL (F3), 'ODD EYED (DOMINANT)', chocolate smoke. THAT IS A BREEDER USING 61 FOR WHAT PAWPEDS WRITES 68, AND SAYING SO IN WORDS | WHAT IT SETTLES. This register has held the 61 against 68 difference as an unexplained inconsistency between sources, on Yoshiki Ermine Trace, on British Gems Alora and elsewhere. THE FROM SHAM PAGE SHOWS ONE CAUSE OF IT DIRECTLY: a cattery writing 61, the ordinary blue-eye code, on animals it states carry a named dominant variant. EVERY 61 IN THIS REGISTER ON A COAT WITHOUT WHITE IS THEREFORE A CANDIDATE 68, and the register's counts drawn from 68 and 69 alone understate | IT ALSO RESOLVES THE CUPCAKE CODE CONFLICT. His own PawPeds sheet gives BLH bs with NO eye code. The PawPeds cattery listing gives BSH bs 69. THE CATTERY'S OWN PAGE GIVES BRL, WHICH IS BRITISH LONGHAIR AND SO AGREES WITH THE SHEET ON BREED, AND 'ODD EYED (DOMINANT)', WHICH AGREES WITH THE LISTING ON THE EYE. Two of three on each point. The register adopts British Longhair and a dominant odd eye | AND IT FILLS A PEDIGREE PAWPEDS RETURNED EMPTY. Cupcake's own PawPeds sheet returned ZERO ancestors of thirty, every cell blank. THIS PAGE GIVES FOUR GENERATIONS. The Superqueen origin question is now answered as far as any document goes: THE LINE RUNS TO SEYMOUR THROUGH NIKITA'L DAISY AND AURORA SUPERQUEEN, AND IT STOPS AT SILVA, whose parents the cattery itself prints as '??????? @Mail ru' | THE F NUMBERS ARE A BREEDING PROGRAMME WRITTEN DOWN. F1 Daisy, F2 Aurora, F3 Cupcake. Each generation is bred back to an unrelated from Sham or Great Fate cat and the eye is kept. THAT IS DELIBERATE INTROGRESSION OF A VARIANT INTO A BREED, recorded by the breeder in the ordinary course of publishing a pedigree

A flag is not an error. It marks a place where two sources say different things, or where an attribution cannot be made on the evidence held.

The record

Register id

nik-01

Sex

female

Cattery prefix

Nikita'l

Breed, as stated

British Shorthair

Variant

DBE-ALT

Eye status

blue: both eyes blue

Eyes, in the source's words

drawn with two blue eye icons

Certificate wording

the cattery's own words: BRI F1, ns 61, ALT Gen, blaue Augen

Role

bridging

Relations named by the source

out of Nikita'l Seymour and Silva; dam of Aurora SuperQueen. THE FIRST FILIAL GENERATION of the from Sham programme, and the animal by which the Seymour line leaves the Nikita'l cattery

Country

Russia

EMS code

BRI F1, ns 61

The code read out

British; black silver; blue eyes; NOT RECOGNISED BY THIS SURVEY: F1

The description held

BRI ns 61, BLACK SILVER WITH NO WHITE CODE, AND HER OWN CATTERY WRITES 'ALT Gen, blaue Augen' BESIDE HER. HER DAM SILVA IS BRI ns 24 AND SILVA'S PARENTS ARE PRINTED BY THE CATTERY AS '??????? @Mail ru', so the line stops there by the breeder's own admission

Evidence grade

Line-traced descent from a named founder is stated by the source

In the register

• Parents: Nikita'l Seymour, Silva
• Offspring recorded in this register; a cat may have others: Aurora Superqueen

This directory is a working aid compiled from published charts, registry documents and breeder statements. It is not a register and it has no standing of any kind. The grade attaches to the animal, not to the line: a cat whose ancestor was genotyped is line-traced, not genotyped.