Genetic variation at hair length candidate genes in elephants and the extinct woolly mammoth

BACKGROUND: Like humans, the living elephants are unusual among mammals in being sparsely covered with hair. Relative to extant elephants, the extinct woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, had a dense hair cover and extremely long hair, which likely were adaptations to its subarctic habitat. The fi...

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Autores principales: Roca, Alfred L, Ishida, Yasuko, Nikolaidis, Nikolas, Kolokotronis, Sergios-Orestis, Fratpietro, Stephen, Stewardson, Kristin, Hensley, Shannon, Tisdale, Michele, Boeskorov, Gennady, Greenwood, Alex D
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2754481/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19747392
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-232

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2754481/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19747392
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-232

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