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Why in News?:
Recently, the death of a Rare Black Tiger was reported in the Similipal Tiger Reserve in Odisha.
Simlipal has the world's highest rate of black tiger sightings in the world.
The death can have a big impact on the Population of Tiger. The population of black tigers is very limited, and the death of a male tiger will affect the breeding of tigers in the region.
Black Tigers: Black Tigers are a rare color variant of the Bengal tiger and are not a distinct species or geographic subspecies.
The coat coloration and patterning that makes the wild cats appear dark boil down to a single mutation in the Transmembrane Aminopeptidase Q (Taqpep) gene.
Pseudo Melanistic:
The abnormally dark or black coat in such tigers is termed pseudo-melanistic or false-coloured.
Melanistic refers to having very dark skin/hair due to a higher-than-normal level of pigment (the substance that gives pigmentation to skin/hair is called melanin).
There is a high probability (about 60%) that the tiger will have the mutant gene if randomly selected from Similipal.
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