Fur Color: Colonizing the Beach
When mice are camouflaged in their surroundings they will likely have a better chance to reproduce and pass their color alleles down to their offspring. This simulation looks at what happens when a fur color mutation occurs in different mouse populations. How might this mutation change the phenotype frequencies when the population is under predation pressure? Play the game to find out!
Fur Color: The Mouse Hunter
In this simulation you get to be the predator. See how quickly you can catch a white mouse in different soil environments.
The above simulations were inspired by research conducted by Kaufman (1974) and by research being conducted at the Hoekstra lab at Harvard University. For more information visit their site: http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/hoekstra/