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Ficoll density gradient sedimentation isolation of pelage hair follicle mesenchymal stem cells from adult mouse back skin: a novel method for hair follicle mesenchymal stem cells isolation

Stem Cell Research & Therapy, 2022
Background Hair follicle mesenchymal stem cells (HF-MSCs) have great potential for cell therapy. Traditional method to isolate whisker HF-MSC is time-consuming and few in cell numbers.
Yuyang Gan, Hailin Wang, Lijuan Du, Zhexiang Fan, Pingping Sun, Kaitao Li, Qian Qu, Jin Wang, Ruosi Chen, Zhiqi Hu, Yong Miao   +10 more
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Ecological Drivers of Eastern Fox Squirrel Pelage Polymorphism

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
The color patterns of an animal’s pelage, feather, or skin serve a variety of adaptive functions; importantly, one function is concealment through background matching.
Alex D. Potash, Daniel U. Greene, Verity L. Mathis, Benjamin Baiser, L. Mike Conner, Robert A. McCleery   +5 more
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Roosting ecology and the evolution of pelage markings in bats. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
Multiple lineages of bats have evolved striking facial and body pelage makings, including spots, stripes and countershading. Although researchers have hypothesized that these markings mainly evolved for crypsis, this idea has never been tested in a ...
Sharlene E Santana, Thomas O Dial, Thomas P Eiting, Michael E Alfaro   +3 more
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Seasonal pelage color change of two sympatric arboreal squirrel species in the subarctic region

The European Zoological Journal, 2019
Some mammal species exhibit pelage color change with seasonal molt. Seasonal molt and pelage color change are beneficial to thermoregulation and concealment, associated with seasonal environmental change.
W. Mitsuzuka, M. Kato, T. Oshida
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Adaptation of pelage color and pigment variations in Israeli subterranean blind mole rats, Spalax ehrenbergi [corrected].

PLoS ONE, 2013
BackgroundConcealing coloration in rodents is well established. However, only a few studies examined how soil color, pelage color, hair-melanin content, and genetics (i.e., the causal chain) synergize to configure it.
Natarajan Singaravelan, Shmuel Raz, Shay Tzur, Shirli Belifante, Tomas Pavlicek, Avigdor Beiles, Shosuke Ito, Kazumasa Wakamatsu, Eviatar Nevo   +8 more
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Relatively recent evolution of pelage coloration in Colobinae: phylogeny and phylogeography of three closely related langur species. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
To understand the evolutionary processes leading to the diversity of Asian colobines, we report here on a phylogenetic, phylogeographical and population genetic analysis of three closely related langurs, Trachypithecus francoisi, T.
Zhijin Liu, Boshi Wang, Tilo Nadler, Guangjian Liu, Tao Sun, Chengming Huang, Qihai Zhou, Jiang Zhou, Tengcheng Que, Ziming Wang, Christian Roos, Ming Li   +11 more
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Evolution of Pelage Luminance in Squirrels (Sciuridae)

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Pelage luminance has been found in many mammalian systems to follow patterns predicted by Gloger’s rule where darker colored animals are associated with environments that are warmer and more moist.
Alec D. Sheets, Andreas S. Chavez, Andreas S. Chavez   +2 more
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Comparative histomorphometric and transcriptomic analysis reveals potential genetic determinants of pelage variation between hairy and coarse-woolly sheep [PDF]

BMC Genomics
Background The unique pelage composition and developmental pattern endow hairy sheep with superior heat tolerance and minimized wool-shearing needs, compared with coarse-woolly sheep.
Qing Liang, Dejun Ji, Xianwei Wang, Xu Peng, Jingxin Zhang, Chenjuan Ge, Yulu Zheng, Tengyun Gao, Yinghua Shi, Zejun Xu, Tong Fu, Sen Ma   +11 more
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Pelage color of red bats Lasiurus borealis varies with body size: An image analysis of museum specimens

Current Zoology, 2010
Mammalian pelage color can vary among individuals of many species, although this intraspecific variation is often overlooked by researchers, perhaps because of its sometimes subtle nature and difficulty in assessing it quantitatively.
Andrew K. DAVIS, Steven B. CASTLEBERRY
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Pelage variation and morphometrics of closely related Callithrix marmoset species and their hybrids [PDF]

BMC Ecology and Evolution
Background Hybrids are expected to show greater phenotypic variation than their parental species, yet how hybrid phenotype expression varies with genetic distances in closely-related parental species remains surprisingly understudied.
Joanna Malukiewicz, Kerryn Warren, Vanner Boere, Illaira L. C. Bandeira, Nelson H. A. Curi, Fabio T. das Dores, Lilian S. Fitorra, Haroldo R. Furuya, Claudia S. Igayara, Liliane Milanelo, Silvia B. Moreira, Camila V. Molina, Marcello S. Nardi, Patricia A. Nicola, Marcelo Passamani, Valeria S. Pedro, Luiz C. M. Pereira, Bruno Petri, Alcides Pissinatti, Adriana Alves Quirino, Jeffrey Rogers, Carlos R. Ruiz-Miranda, Daniel L. Silva, Ita O. Silva, Monique O. M. Silva, Juliana L. Summa, Ticiana Zwarg, Rebecca R. Ackermann   +27 more
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