Sentences with phrase «black pigment mutation»

Not exact matches

The team also found this SLC45A2 mutation in another 130 unrelated white and orange tigers, which helped confirm that in white cats it appears to silence red and yellow pigments but leave black untouched — hence the leftover stripes.

This mutation affects both eumelanin and phaeomelanin pigments, so black, brown and yellow dogs are all affected by the dilution.