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The scientific name for a cat is Felis catus. The binomial nomenclature system which this naming system is based on was ...
Cat owners have been descending on hardware stores on an unusual mission—picking up a concrete slab, typically for patios and garden paths, for their feline friend to lounge on. Costing as little as ...
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Cats can smell the difference between their human friends and strangers from just a few sniffs of our body odor, a new study suggests. Domestic cats (Felis catus) use smell to communicate with each ...
Whether you are lucky enough to have a cat companion or must merely live this experience vicariously through cat videos, Felis catus is a familiar and comforting presence in our daily lives. Unlike ...
Over 300 invasive species are in the United States' national parks, causing a variety of issues such as harmful changes in ecosystem ecology, disease emergence, and local species extinctions. Invasive ...
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This repository contains code that was used for, and results from, an analysis of viral- and bacterial-derived reads in samples from the the FUR Felis Catus project. In 03_analyse_kraken2_results.R ...
This Python package can be used for species-agnostic merging of SNVs with a shared phase set into MNVs. It takes VCF file (variants_file) and a tab-seperated file describing colocated variants ...
Bengals are one of the most sought-after cat breeds in the world, in part due to a genetic trait that gives many of them shiny, almost “glittery” coats. It turns out that this trait is a deviation of ...
You can now be the proud owner of a Felis Catus in Ark Survival Ascended. The developers were not pulling the wool over anyone's eyes when they released the "The Cat: Out Meow" trailer. What seemed to ...