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Friday. Bte.mber 7. 133S
Tdrfoise-ShellTom Cats Wanted By Scientists to Realize Ambition
BY DELOS SMITH
United Prcit Scitnct Editor
.N'A- York W Two scien
tists would be happy to receive
litters a kittens from w?iatevrr
source by wiistrvfr means of
transport provided the litters
contain one or more tortoise-
shell males
It is the scientific ambition of
Lucian M. Sprague and Clyde
Stormont of the University of
California's school pi veterinary
medicine at Davis. Calif ., to solve
r.t long last a prime mystery of
cats.
oranse were sex-linked, they
could combine only if the sex
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I tor mat reason tncy appealed
; through the American Genetic
, Association for male tortoise
shells and their littler mates,
j But they don't expect to get
many, if any.
j The mystery is why tortoise
j shell toms are so exceedingly
I rare when nature seems to have
I no trouble producing tortoise
shell females in sizeable num
bers. Intensifying this mystery is
the fact that male tortoiseshells
are almost always sterile but
not always, while sterility is not
a notable feature of tortoiseshell
females.
, Difficult Problem
Now, if there yvas no such
animal as a tortoiseshell torn, the
explanation 'wouldn't be too dif
ficult, as the scientists pointed
out. A pair of genes in the chro- ricd away trees and timber be
mosomes of inheritance in cat j lonsing to the plaintiffs,
germ cells, stand for color in 1 They also charge that Ihe de
the case of tortoiseshells, one j fendant converted and disposed
stands for black, the other for j of the timber, valued at $1,501.
orange. ! to his own use.Th'ey are asking
In the combining of chromp-1 judgment against the defendant
; somes in the fertilized egg, two i in treble damages of S4.5.03'plu
; orange would result in an i costs of the suit and other re
: orange cat, tw o black's in a black ! lief the court may deem justi-'
! cat, and one orange and one 1 fieri. .
! black in -a tortoise-shrll cat.- If ' Representing the Haynies is
the combining of. black- and P.obcrt A. Boycr,
Shady Cove Couple
Files Damage Suit
Troy and Ann Haynie, post
ofiice box 236. Shady Cove,
have filed a complaint in circuit
court against Norman T. Han
son. Pleasanton, Calif., and are
seeking 54,503 settlement of a
dispute involving timber.
In the complaint, the Haynies
claim they are owners of four
tracts of real property in the
Shady Cove-Trail ' area. They
state that in March and April ot
this year the defendant "will
fully, and unlawfully" entered
the area and cut down and car-
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senes were in the female com
bination.
But nature crosses that up
w ith an occasional male tortoise
shell, which is one part of the
mystery. Sprague and Stormont
examined a theory that male tortoise-shells
are gcntically female
which in the embryonic state
were influenced toward struc
tural masculinity. Unfortunately
for that theory, a few male tort-ose-shells
have been minutely
dissected. There were no ves
tiges of female structure: struc
turally they were 100 per cent
male.
Own Theory
The scientists constructed a
theory of their own. They sug
gested it all could begin if the
membranes enclosing two cat
embryos got their veins joined
by accident, which would result
in an, interchange by way of
flowing blood. Though womb
mates, the divisions of their
genes could have come out dif
ferently and their heredity
would be different.
But the Interchange would
modify this difference. If one of
the joined embryos was female
and destined to be a tortoise
shell and the other was a male,
destined to be either orange or
black, it could make the male
tortoise-shell instead and at the
same time impose a chemical
set-up that would prevent male
chemistry from producing male
germ cells and so bring about
sterility.
If Sprague and Stormont can
only get their hands on the right
kinds of cats, they may be able to
prove that this theory is a fact,
or otherwise end the mystery of
how the tortoise-shell torn got
that way.
Greatest population increase
in the U.S. occurred in the de
cade from 1800 to 1810 when the
gain amounted to just 36.4 per
cent.
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