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Spiny Mice Modulate Eumelanin to Pheomelanin Ratio to Achieve Cryptic Coloration in “Evolution Canyon,” Israel

BACKGROUND: Coat coloration in mammals is an explicit adaptation through natural selection. Camouflaging with the environment is the foremost evolutionary drive in explaining overall coloration. Decades of enquiries on this topic have been limited to repetitive coat color measurements to correlate t...

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Autores principales: Singaravelan, Natarajan, Pavlicek, Tomas, Beharav, Alex, Wakamatsu, Kazumasa, Ito, Shosuke, Nevo, Eviatar
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2806840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20090935
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008708