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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.
Robert Mccleery +2 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.
Andreas Chavez
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Environmental Epigenetics, 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 Davis, Davis Andrew K
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Total mercury in small mammals from forest ecosystems (nearby Cherepovets, Vologda region) [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 The aim of the research is to determine the total mercury (THg) in small mammals in forest ecosystems at a distance of 3 – 8 km from the boundaries of the industrial site of PJSC Severstal near Cherepovets, Vologda region. THg in the pelage and organs of
Ageeva Elena +2 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 +3 more
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ILCEA, 2021 The history of Dominican literature is deeply marked by the geographical movements of its writers. Diaspora authors express, in different ways, a floating relationship with spaces (geographical and textual), and an acute awareness of the complexity of ...
Catherine Pélage
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Ghost rodents: Albinism in Australian rodent species
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 While almost half of all mammal species are rodents, records of albinism in free‐ranging rodents are very rare. Australia has a large and diverse assemblage of native rodent species, but there are no records of free‐ranging albino rodents in the ...
Darcy Watchorn +5 more
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Taxonomic status of Tamarinus imperator subgrisescens (Lönnberg, 1940) (Cebidae, Callitrichinae) [PDF]
Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 2023 The emperor tamarin, Tamarinus imperator, is composed of two subspecies, the nominal type, T. i. imperator, distributed between the Acre and Purus Rivers, whose range is limited between the Brazilian state of Acre and Peru are unbounded, and T.
Renato Gregorin +3 more
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Arctic Fox Alopex lagopus L. color phases in South Norway
Fauna Norvegica, 1989 Arctic Foxes (Alopex lagopus) exhibit two color phases, white and blue, with some variation within each. The coat color of Arctic Foxes observed in south Norway, Arctic Fox skins from Stockholm Museum and foxes on photos encountered in litterature are ...
Karl Frafjord
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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 +10 more
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