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Article #4371Re: What distinguishes a species?
From: Craig Werner
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1990 05:05
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1990 05:05
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In article <31579@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, frazier@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Frazier) writes:
> In article <9558@ttidca.TTI.COM> jackson@ttidcc.tti.com (Dick Jackson) writes:
> >
> >OK Chaps, how about cats? Can a house cat breed with any kind of wild cats?
>
> are mules (so to speak!). There is a species of wild cat which
> can interbreed with the domestic cat, however.
>
I forget where I read the article, but somebody decided that
having a domestic cat with leopard's spots would be really neat. It took
about 12-15 years, as I recall, including a few backcrosses, but he
succeeded. The progeny is a bit a hybrid, but is considered a House cat
with a couple of introduced foreign genes.
--
Craig Werner (future MD/PhD, 4.5 years down, 2.5 to go)
werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
(1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517)
"If I don't see you soon, I'll see you later."
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