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Handstanding Rabbits Help Scientists Identify Gene for Jumping – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Studies showed that a functional RORB gene is necessary for rabbits—and likely other hopping animals—to perform their characteristic jumping gait.
A single gene mutation is enough to prevent rabbits from getting about using their characteristic jumping gait, according to the results of research headed by Miguel Carneiro PhD, of the Universidade do Porto, and Leif Andersson, PhD, at Uppsala University.
Their studies in an unusual strain of domesticated rabbit that cant jumpbut instead gets about by lifting its back legs off the ground and walking on its front pawspinpointed the animals inability to move about like normal rabbits to a single…
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