The hair characteristics of Turkish Angora and Van cats

Authors : Serkan ERAT, Şevket ARIKAN

Pages : 215-221

Doi:10.3906/sag-1207-2

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Publication Date : 0000-00-00

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The primary aim of this study was to determine the hair characteristics of Turkish Angora and Van cats, and also to see if there were seasonal, sex, age, or eye color effects on the traits measured. A total of 41 cats, 26 Turkish Angora and 15 Turkish Van, were used. The ages of the cats ranged from 1 to 8 years old. Analyzed traits included fiber diameter insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(FD);, fiber lengths of hauteur insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(H); and barbe insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(B);, fiber tenacity insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(T);, and elongation insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(EL);. Terms included in the statistical models were breed, season, sex, age, and eye colors of the cats and 2-way interactions that had P-values of less than 0.2 among the main effects. The difference in the FD of the Turkish Angora insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(23.5 µm); and Van insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(25.6 µm); cats was not significant insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(P = 0.0579);. The H insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(27.5 versus 20.1 mm);, B insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(33.1 versus 23.4 mm);, and EL insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(33.8% versus 24.0%); values were all greater insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(P < 0.0001); for the Turkish Angora cats, while only the T value insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(12.1 versus 7.6 g/den); was greater insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(P = 0.0001); for the Turkish Van cats. Significant phenotypic correlations were found between FD and T insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(0.36, P = 0.0191);, between H and B insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(0.98, P < 0.0001);, between H and T insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(-0.58, P < 0.0001);, between H and EL insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(0.31, P = 0.0480);, between B and T insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(-0.56, P = 0.0001);, and between B and EL insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(0.34, P = 0.0315);. The present study defines the hair characteristics of the Turkish Angora and Van cats. These results may help to understand the phenotypes of these cats better and could also be a source for further studies.
Keywords : Key words Turkish Angora cat, Turkish Van cat, cat hair