"How cats get their stripes" Topic
3 Posts
All members in good standing are free to post here. Opinions expressed here are solely those of the posters, and have not been cleared with nor are they endorsed by The Miniatures Page.
Please remember that some of our members are children, and act appropriately.
For more information, see the TMP FAQ.
Back to the Animals Plus Board
Areas of InterestGeneral
Featured Hobby News Article
Featured Link
Featured Ruleset
Featured Showcase Article Need 16 square feet of gaming space, built to order?
Featured Workbench Article The Spacefarers are covered with some kind of lead disease!
Featured Profile Article I spend my first day with a paper-cutting machine.
Current Poll
|
Please sign in to your membership account, or, if you are not yet a member, please sign up for your free membership account.
Tango01  | 17 Dec 2020 8:46 p.m. PST |
"When Rudyard Kipling told how the leopard got his spots, he missed the mark. Leopards have "rosettes"; spots are for cheetahs, says Gregory Barsh, a geneticist at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. But whatever you call the markings, how wild cats and their domestic counterparts acquire them has long been a mystery. Now, Barsh and his colleagues have found an answer. In so doing, they have shown that a 70-year-old theory explaining patterns in nature holds true for fur color in cats, and likely other mammals as well. "This is an important paper unveiling part of the genetic basis [of ] coat color markings so prominent in many mammals," says Denis Headon, a developmental biologist at the Roslin Institute. It also offers a glimpse of how those genes operate during development, forming what he calls a "highly adaptable mechanism" that responds to genetic tweaks to produce diverse coat patterns, from stripes to spots…" link
Main page
link
Amicalement
Armand |
| 14Bore | 24 Dec 2020 12:10 p.m. PST |
|
| Tango01 | 19 Jan 2021 3:45 p.m. PST |
|
|
