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 ...

All cats are genetically tabbies thanks to the agouti gene. In many cats and cat breeds, the agouti gene is suppressed, giving them a solid color. When it comes through, however, the agouti gene ...

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 remaining male pup developed into a fertile adult male with the same agouti coat colour as the B6C3F1 tail-tip cell donor. As oocytes of B6D2F1 mice do not carry the agouti mutation ...