On December 10th, the currently endangered black-footed ferret species welcomed a novel addition: a clone kit named Elizabeth Ann. The small ferret shares its DNA with a long-deceased wild one, Willa, whose genetic makeup has been preserved as skin cells in San Diego’s Frozen Zoo since the mid-1980s.
Read MoreJake Gable has been studying the whiskers of deer mice for 6 years now, has been part of multiple projects and has done enough research and experiments to write a series of books - a young expert in the field. But his biggest focus has been their length. Deer mice are split into forest mice and prairie mice, and with virtually no other differences, the forest mice have longer whiskers. What determined such a discrepancy in the whisker length of these populations? And which gene is responsible for it?
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