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Increased rate of hair keratin gene loss in the cetacean lineage.

BMC genomics - 6 Oct 2014

Nery Mariana F, Arroyo José Ignacio, Opazo Juan C

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BACKGROUND: Hair represents an evolutionary innovation that appeared early on mammalian evolutionary history, and presumably contributed significantly to the rapid radiation of the group. An interesting event in hair evolution has been its secondary loss in some mammalian groups, such as cetaceans, whose hairless phenotype appears to be an adaptive response to better meet the environmental conditions. To...

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PMID: 25287022
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-869
PMCID: PMC4195889

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