KAZI 106F
- Kazi 106F’, described as the country’s only Golden Tiger.
- It resides in world heritage Kaziranga National Park of Assam.
- It is also known as ‘Tabby tiger’ or ‘Strawberry tiger’.
- The skin of tigers is orange-yellow with black stripes and whitish abdominal region.
- The yellowish background is controlled by a set of ‘agouti genes’ and their alleles and the black colour stripes are controlled by ‘tabby genes’ and their alleles.
- Suppression of any of these genes may lead to colour variation in tiger.
- An agouti gene interacts with the pigment cells to produce yellow to red or brown to black expression.
- This interaction is responsible for making distinct light and dark bands in the hairs of animals such as the agouti here same is happening in our tigress - Kazi 106 F.
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