"How cats get their stripes" Topic
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| Tango01 | 17 Dec 2020 7:46 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
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| Tango01 | 19 Jan 2021 2:45 p.m. PST |
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