Tabby cats often have what looks like a letter "M" on their foreheads, plus bold stripes of varying design in their fur. The tabbys have made their mark on pop culture, too.

Of the nearly 60 million pet cats in the United States, one of the most common is the classic tabby—a coat pattern that features stripes, dots, and swirls and what looks like an M imprinted on ...

The mackerel tabby, often called a striped tabby or a tiger cat, has narrow stripes of dark fur instead of the blotches or swirls of the classic tabby. In the “broken mackerel” coat pattern ...

A cat’s dress code, it seems, is its genetic code. Scientists have solved an age-old mouser mystery—why there are stripes on a domestic tabby cat—and discovered yet another connection ...

A tabby cat with a typical mackerel striped pattern. (Image credit: Helmi Flick) Stripes or spots? O'Brien and his colleagues contributed to the original sequencing of the domestic cat genome ...

From where does a tabby cat get its stripes? The same place cheetahs get their spots. A new study finds the same gene that is responsible for the cheetah's color patterns causes a tabby's stripes ...

NEW YORK – How does a tabby cat earn its stripes? With the right DNA. Scientists say they’ve found the gene that sets the common tabby pattern – stripes or blotches. It’s one of several ...

And it’s the same gene that turns a mackerel-striped tabby cat into a blotched “classic” one. Back in 2010, Eduardo Eizirik, one of O’Brien’s team, ...

Nini the striped tabby cat watches her family pack for a trip and worries that she'll be left behind. But she's zipped into a carrier and soon falls asleep dreaming about adventures.