How the white tiger lost its color, but kept its stripes

Sci China Life Sci. 2014 Oct;57(10):1041-3. doi: 10.1007/s11427-014-4697-z. Epub 2014 Jun 27.

Authors

Xiao Xu¹, Shu-Jin Luo

Affiliation

¹ College of Life Sciences, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.

PMID: 25323677
DOI: 10.1007/s11427-014-4697-z

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Evolution
Color
Melanins / chemistry*
Melanosomes / physiology
Membrane Transport Proteins / genetics
Mutation
Pigmentation / genetics*
Tigers / genetics*

Substances

Melanins
Membrane Transport Proteins