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Cheetah Color Mutations


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Cheetah Color Mutations. Albinism (pure white), chinchilla (white with pale markings) and melanism (black) are the commonest mutations. And yet it's incredible to find.

Cheetah Mutations
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One such variation is the rare king cheetah, which displays a different coat pattern. Cheetahs have abnormally little variation in their genetic code, due to a severe population bottleneck that happened during the last ice age. Albinism (pure white), chinchilla (white with pale markings) and melanism (black) are the commonest mutations.

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Cheetah Mutations

And yet it's incredible to find. Cheetahs have abnormally little variation in their genetic code, due to a severe population bottleneck that happened during the last ice age. And yet it's incredible to find. (2012) reported the causal mutation as a base pair insertion in exon 20 [of the cheetah taqpep.

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