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The transcriptional landscape of seasonal coat colour moult in the snowshoe hare.
Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 2017
Ferreira Mafalda S, Alves Paulo C, Callahan Colin M, Marques João P, Mills L Scott, Good Jeffrey M, Melo-Ferreira José
Abstract excerpt
Seasonal coat colour change is an important adaptation to seasonally changing environments but the evolution of this and other circannual traits remains poorly understood. In this study, we use gene expression to understand seasonal coat colour moulting in wild snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus). We used hair colour to follow the progression of the moult, simultaneously sampling skin from three moulting stages in...
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