Editing Bengal cat (section)

== Appearance ==

=== Markings ===
[[File:Best Stalk.jpg|thumb|left|A brown Bengal cat stalking. This cat displays rosettes and spotting typical of the breed. Bengals have longer rear legs and carry their tails low.]]

==== Colors ====
Bengals come in a variety of coat colors.<ref name="YCA">{{cite web |title=Bengal Breed |url= https://tica.org/breeds/browse-all-breeds#bengal |website=TICA.org |publisher=[[The International Cat Association]] |access-date=January 5, 2020 |archive-date=September 27, 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170927102615/http://www.tica.org/cat-breeds/item/301#bengal |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=So, Do You Think My Cat Is a Bengal? |url= https://www.wildcatsanctuary.org/is-my-cat-a-bengal-cat/ |work=WildcatSanctuary.org |date=2019 |location=Sandstone, Minnesota |publisher=Wildcat Sanctuary |access-date=January 23, 2019 |archive-date=January 24, 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190124041836/https://www.wildcatsanctuary.org/is-my-cat-a-bengal-cat/ |url-status=live}}</ref> [[The International Cat Association]] (TICA) recognizes several Bengal colors: brown spotted, seal lynx point (snow), sepia, silver, and mink spotted [[Tabby cat|tabby]].<ref>{{cite web |first=Alan |last=Brown |url= http://www.bengalcat.com/aboutbengals/bengal.php |title=Bengal Cats & Kittens |publisher=The International Bengal Cat Society |work=BengalCat.com |access-date=September 12, 2013 |archive-date=September 22, 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130922151123/http://www.bengalcat.com/aboutbengals/bengal.php |url-status=live}}</ref>

==== Spotted rosetted ====
The Bengal cat is the only domestic breed of cat that has [[Rosette (zoology)|rosette markings]].{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}
==== Marble ====
[[File:CattiCartano Hemlock -Hemppa- BEN n 22 at the age of 4 months.JPG|thumb|right|A brown marble Bengal being judged at a TICA show (2013)]]
Domestic cats have four distinct and heritable coat patterns – ticked, mackerel, blotched, and spotted – these are collectively referred to as tabby markings.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Barsh |first1=Greg |last2=Kaelin |first2=Christopher |title=Tabby pattern genetics – a whole new breed of cat |journal=Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=514–516 |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |doi=10.1111/j.1755-148X.2010.00723.x |pmid=20518859 |year=2010 |s2cid=7082692}}</ref>

Christopher Kaelin, a [[Stanford University]] [[geneticist]], has conducted research that has been used to identify the spotted gene and the marble gene in domestic Bengal cats.  Kaelin studied the color and pattern variations of feral cats in Northern California, and was able to identify the gene responsible for the marble pattern in Bengal cats.<ref>{{cite web |last=Conger |first=Krista |title=How the cheetah got its stripes: A genetic tale by Stanford researchers |url= http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2012/09/how-the-cheetah-got-its-stripes-a-genetic-tale-by-stanford-researchers.html |website=Med.Stanford.edu |date=October 30, 2007 |publisher=[[Stanford University]] |access-date=March 10, 2019 |archive-date=January 10, 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190110071024/http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2012/09/how-the-cheetah-got-its-stripes-a-genetic-tale-by-stanford-researchers.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:BEN Russicats White Angel (5274194975).jpg|thumb|left|A snow Bengal, with "mascara" markings (horizontal striping alongside the eyes)|alt=|219x219px]]
[[File:Bengal Color dna test.jpg|thumb|right|A UC Davis Bengal DNA test showing a cat carrying three recessive colors]]