Page 16 Section 1 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Salem, Oregon, Thursday, December 6, 1956 2 Scientists Try to Solve Cat Mystery Happy to Get Litters Containing 1 Male Tortoiseshell By DEI.OS SMITH I'nlird Press Science Editor NEW YORK (UP)-Two scien lists would be happy to receive litters of kittens from whatever source, by whatever means of transport provided the litters con tain one or more tortoiscshell males. It is the scientific ambition of I.ucian M. Sprague and Clyde Stor monl ol the University of Califor nia s school of veterinary medi cine at Davis, Calif., to solve at long last a prime mystery of cats For that reason they appealed inrough the American Genetic As sociation for male tortoiscshells and their litter mates. But they oon i expect to get many, if any. The mystery is why tortoiscshell loins are so exceedingly rare when nature seems to have no trouble producing tortoiscshell females in sizable numbers, Intensifying this mystery is the tact mat male tortoiscshells are almost always sterile but not al ways, while sterility is not a not able feature of tortoiscshell fe males. Difficult Problem Now, if there was no such anl mal as a tortoiscshell torn, the explanation wouldn't be too diffi cult, as the scientists pointed out. A pair of genes in the chromo somes of inheritance in cat germ cells, stand for color in the case of tortoiscshells, one stands (or black, the other for orange. In the combining of chromo lomcs in the fertilized egg, two oranges would result in an orange cat, two blacks in a black cat, : and one orange and one black in a j tortoiscshell cat. If the combining ! of black and orange were "sex- j linked," they could combine only I if the sex genes were in the fc male combination. But nature crosses that up with an occasional male tortoiscshell, which Is one part of the mystery. Sprague and Stormont examined a theory that male tortoiscshells are gcnct'colly female which in the embryonic stale were influenced toward structural masculinity. Un fortunately for that theory, a few male tortoiscshells have been min utely dissected. There were no ves tiges of female structure: struc turally they were 100 per cent male. Own theory ine scicmisir i constructed a I theory of their own. They sugRost- I A u u ..i.i i ir ,t. . I u it mi i-uuiu uuhui ii miu mem branes enclosing two cat, embryos got tneir veins Joined by accident, which would result In an Inter change by way of flowing blood, Though womb mates, Ihe divisions ot their genes could have come out differently and their heredity would no dlr(t. : y But tho'lnt)irchango"vould -modify this difference. 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