Researchers Solve Mystery of Brown Giant Pandas
Brown-and-white huge pandas stand out coat color mutants discovered solely in the Qinling Mountains of China.
Qi Zai, the only brown panda living in captivity. Image credit: Ailie HM/ CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed.
"Coat color variation has considerable adaptive and cultural worth in mammals," stated research study's very first author Dr. Dengfeng Guan from the Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and associates.
"This characteristic is straight identified by the ratio of eumelanin to pheomelanin, in addition to the density and circulation of melanosomes in hair."
"These aspects are under intricate policy by numerous genes that affect different elements of melanogenesis, consisting of melanocyte expansion and migration, melanin synthesis, and mel...