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

BMC evolutionary biology - 11 Sept 2009

Roca Alfred L, Ishida Yasuko, Nikolaidis Nikolas, Kolokotronis Sergios-Orestis, Fratpietro Stephen, Stewardson Kristin, Hensley Shannon, Tisdale Michele, Boeskorov Gennady, Greenwood Alex D

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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 fibroblast growth factor 5 (FGF5) gene affects hair length in a diverse set of mammalian species. Mutations in FGF5...

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PMID: 19747392
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-232
PMCID: PMC2754481

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