--- license: permission_granted topic_id: companion_species_health_ears_four_cat category: companion-species-health title: "Cat (Felis catus) — Ears, four (hereditary; OMIA-verified species predisposition)" lang: en source: "OMIA (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals, University of Sydney) species-specific hereditary-disorder record, saved verbatim to source_file; C1 substring-verified. Pulled 2026-08-24 from local OMIA database dump." source_file: pdf-raw/species-health/cat_ears_four_581.txt date_parsed: 2026-08-24 tokens_estimated: 80 verification: method: substring_match claims: 3 passed: 3 date: 2026-08-24 recovered: false path: companion-species-health/companion_species_health_ears_four_cat/01_companion_species_health_ears_four_cat.md source_document: "OMIA — Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (University of Sydney)" citation: authority: "OMIA — Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (University of Sydney)" title: "Cat (Felis catus) — Ears, four (hereditary; OMIA-verified species predisposition)" url: "https://omia.org/OMIA000320/9685/" retrieved: "2026-08-24" ref: "OMIA species-specific hereditary-disorder records (omia.org), derived from local OMIA database dump; dataset: https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70" doc_type: "academic animal-genetics database (species-specific disorder entries)" needs_review: false
verification_derived: method: derived_from_dataset source: "OMIA database dump (omia.xml, local); fields Gene/Variant/Article/OMIM" note: "Structured fields (gene, variant rsID/protein change, PubMed/DOI references, OMIM cross-link) extracted from OMIA dump and presented with first-hand values; not verbatim prose." verification_derived: method: derived_from_dataset source: "OMIA database dump (omia.xml, local); fields Gene/Variant/Article/OMIM" note: "Structured fields (gene, variant rsID/protein change, PubMed/DOI references, OMIM cross-link) extracted from OMIA dump and presented with first-hand values; not verbatim prose."---
Cat (Felis catus) — Ears, four (hereditary; OMIA-verified species predisposition)
Source: first-hand OMIA (University of Sydney) species-specific hereditary-disorder record, saved verbatim to source_file; every claim below is a C1 byte-substring of it.
Claims
Species: Cat (Felis catus)Disorder: Ears, fourSummary: As stated by Little (1957): "Certain attributes of the four-eared character are interesting.
Evidence (references)
Derived from OMIA database dump (omia.xml, local); structured field, not verbatim prose. First-hand values below are verbatim substrings of the topic's pdf-raw/omia/<phene_id>.txt source file.
- 1957. Four-ears, a recessive mutation in the cat. Journal of Heredity — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
Evidence (references)
Derived from OMIA database dump (omia.xml, local); structured field, not verbatim prose. First-hand values below are verbatim substrings of the topic's pdf-raw/omia/<phene_id>.txt source file.
- 1957. Four-ears, a recessive mutation in the cat. Journal of Heredity — OMIA Phene_Article / Article