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The bald and the beautiful: hairlessness in domestic dog breeds.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 5 Feb 2017
Parker Heidi G, Harris Alexander, Dreger Dayna L, Davis Brian W, Ostrander Elaine A
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An extraordinary amount of genomic variation is contained within the chromosomes of domestic dogs, manifesting as dramatic differences in morphology, behaviour and disease susceptibility. Morphology, in particular, has been a topic of enormous interest as biologists struggle to understand the small window of dog domestication from wolves, and the division of dogs into pure breeding, closed populations termed...
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