They knew from the preponderance of male orange cats that the mutation—dubbed sex-linked orange—was somewhere on the X chromosome. (As in most mammals, females have XX while males have XY sex ...

Researchers identified an unusual genetic mutation in orange domestic cats that has not been found in any other animal, according to a new study.

Whether spontaneous or induced, mutations generally are a result of large-scale deletions, inversions or translocations of chromosomes, or from point mutations (a type of mutation that causes a single ...

What Is a Translocation Mutation? A change in chromosome structure and content caused by translocation is a translocation mutation. ... Inversions. This happens when a chromosome breaks in two places.

Sometime in history, one of those ants had experienced a mutation that replaced the supergene on one chromosome with a copy of the supergene from the other chromosome. The resulting mutant ant with ...

DNA sequencing and analysis by Larracuente, Daven Presgraves and their colleagues showed that chromosomes with SD-Mal accumulate harmful mutations, as predicted by the near-complete lack of ...

Chromosomal rearrangements, such as chromosome segment inversions, may affect the epigenetic landscape as well as gene expression. Indeed, different kinds of chromosome segment inversions have ...

We humans are a pretty special lot. With our 23 pairs of chromosomes and 25,000 or so genes we stand out from every other species because of our brainpower, language and the ever handy opposable ...

Researchers identified an unusual genetic mutation in orange domestic cats that has not been found in any other animal, according to a new study.

But where the mutation exists on the X chromosome, and how it gives rise to orange coloration, has been an enigma until now. Typically, mutations that lead to yellow or orange fur in animals (and ...

But where the mutation exists on the X chromosome, and how it gives rise to orange coloration, has been an enigma until now. Typically, mutations that lead to yellow or orange fur in animals ...