How the sub-Saharan cheetah got its stripes: Californian feral cats help unlock biological secret

Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 14:00 in Biology & Nature

Feral cats in Northern California have enabled researchers to unlock the biological secret behind a rare, striped cheetah found only in sub-Saharan Africa, according to researchers. The study is the first to identify a molecular basis of coat patterning in mammals.

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