We've linkurl:written in the past;http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/24535/ about Randy Jirtle's agouti mice, which are a neat animal model for epigenetic ...

When it comes through, however, the agouti gene gives tabbies a beautiful ... Learn more about the world’s incredible range of tabby colors below. Perhaps the most unique and rarest of possible ...

The mice are Agouti Viable Yellow, naturally occurring mutants, which, though genetically identical, have coats that vary in color—a phenomenon that researchers have long studied as an example of ...

For instance, in normal, healthy mice, the agouti genes are kept in the "off" position by the epigenome, which attaches methyl groups to the corresponding regions of DNA, resulting in the DNA's ...

The three offspring weighed 1.22, 1.31 and 1.35 g, respectively, at the time of birth; these weights are within the range for normal ... adult male with the same agouti coat colour as the B6C3F1 ...