The leopard gecko’s name was Mr. Frosty, and he was hard to miss.
Yellow bands striped his back, and uncommonly white skin peeked out from speckles on his head and tail. “It’s this really striking coloration pattern,” says Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Leonid Kruglyak, a geneticist at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
A California reptile shop began breeding Mr. Frosty in 2016 and produced a colony of lemon-yellow lizards. The color variety was known as Lemon Frost – with their bold bands and snazzy spots, the rare animals could fetch upwards of $2,000. [Read more…] about Leopard gecko skin tumors traced to cancer gene