Staff Reports<\/p>\n
An A to Z Cat Coat Genetics presentation was given to Adair County 4-H Cat Project members by Dr. Leslie Lyons, professor of Feline Genetics & Comparative Medicine, MU School of Veterinary Medicine, on Saturday, Sept. 13 at the Holiday Inn Express in Kirksville.<\/p>\n
Lyons has collected DNA from cats around the world to pinpoint the origins of cats to Egypt in the time of the pharaohs. This 4-H Cat Project guest speaker series was open to the community and was well attended.The presentation included photos, stories and explanations of genetics and comparative medicine in cats.<\/p>\n
A question and answer session was held and photos were submitted by those in attendance to compare the genetics behind these household companions.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe look forward to Dr. Lyons returning for additional presentations in the near future,\u201d said Wende Wagner of PurrMore Cat Grooming LLC and the Adair County 4-H Cat Project leader.<\/p>\n
Event support was provided by Hy-Vee and S&S Printing.<\/p>\n
The 4-H members also viewed a National Geographic documentary called “Science of Cats.\u201d<\/p>\n
Afterwards, Dr. Lyons was invited to dinner at Colton’s where she shared stories of her adventures collecting DNA from cats throughout Egypt, and entering a tomb filled with mummified cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staff Reports An A to Z Cat Coat Genetics presentation was given to Adair County 4-H Cat Project…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[200,79],"class_list":["post-177035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-genetics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}