Why Some Cats Have One Gold Eye and One Blue
One gold eye and one blue eye in a cat look like a design glitch, but the architecture of both eyes is essentially the same. What diverges is the journey of pigment‑producing cells in the embryo, not the hardware of the eyeball itself.In early embryonic development, neural crest cells migrate across the future face, some of them destined to become melanocytes in the iris. These melanocytes synthes...More
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