{"id":4291,"date":"2012-09-20T14:36:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T19:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4291"},"modified":"2012-09-20T14:37:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T19:37:06","slug":"how-cats-earn-there-strips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4291","title":{"rendered":"How Cats Earn Their Stripes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Toffee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3118\" title=\"Toffee\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Toffee-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0NEW YORK (AP) \u2013 Now we know how the tabby cat earns his stripes.<br \/>\nHe just needs the right DNA.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists say they\u2019ve found the gene that determines which of the common tabby patterns a cat will have.<\/p>\n<p>Cats with narrow stripes have a working copy of the gene.<\/p>\n<p>If a mutation turns the gene off, the cat ends up with the blotchy<br \/>\npattern.<\/p>\n<p>The gene is one of several that work to create the distinctive design of a cat\u2019s coat. It\u2019s the first of the pattern genes to be identified.<\/p>\n<p>The research appears online in the journal Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0NEW YORK (AP) \u2013 Now we know how the tabby cat earns his stripes. He just needs the right DNA. Scientists say they\u2019ve found the gene that determines which of the common tabby patterns a cat will have. Cats with narrow stripes have a working copy of the gene. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4293,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions\/4293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}