By Ruth Kamnitzer In 2018, Han Xue-song, then a researcher with the Beijing-based Shan Shui Conservation Center, was in the Sanjiangyuan region on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, surveying black-necked ...

Song Dazhao/CFCA By Jaime Chambers June 23, 2021 at 2:00 pm - More than 2 years ago Wild Chinese mountain cats aren’t the ancestors of domestic cats, but the two types of felines still swap genes.

Biology Chinese Mountain Cat Is Fully Wild Despite Its Cuddly Appearance, DNA Shows Domesticated cats in China did not descend from the Chinese mountain cat, the study found.

The new study, published last week in the journal Science Advances, collected and sequenced the genetic material of 27 Chinese mountain cats, 239 Chinese domestic cats and four Asiatic wildcats.

Guo’s post on Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, or RedNote, received 120,000 likes within 10 days. On the media platform Weibo, the hashtag #xiaogoushan — Chinese for “Puppy Mountain ...

Genomic evidence for the Chinese mountain cat as a wildcat conspecific (Felis silvestris bieti) and its introgression to domestic cats. Science Advances, 2021; 7 (26): eabg0221 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv ...