Researchers took a deep dive into embryonic development to tease out the source of the tabby pattern in cats. By James Gorman Folklore is full of stories about the coat patterns of cats: How the tiger ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. How cats get their stripes is a decades-old mystery in the life sciences, senior author Dr.

Never heard of this one? Domestic cat breeding has led us to felines with “colorpoint” patterns, which is when the body of the cat is a lighter color, then it has darker coloring around the ears, paws ...

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Cats with narrow stripes, the so-called 'mackerel' pattern, have a working copy of the gene. But if a mutation turns the gene off, the cat ends up with the blotchy 'classic' pattern, researchers said.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. From where does a tabby cat get its stripes? The same place cheetahs get their spots. A new study ...

Findings of a new study that revealed the history of domesticated cats have found that it was not until the Middle Ages, after cats lived as human companions for thousands of years, that some of these ...