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Analogous to the analysis of minimal conditions for the formation of Turing patterns or diffusion driven instabilities, in this paper we discuss minimal conditions for a class of kinetic equations with mass conservation, which form patterns with a characteristic wavelength. The related linearized systems are analyzed and the minimal number of equations is derived, which is needed to obtain specific patterns.