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Cream, a new coat-color mutant in the musk shrew.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Iseki R, Namikawa T, Kondo K
Abstract excerpt
A coat-color mutant was found in the wild musk shrew (Suncus murinus, Insectivora). Five musk shrews with gray pelage, the common coat color of this species, were captured in the village of Tambum near Jakarta, Indonesia. Two males and two females were transported to Japan and mated. Matings between one male and two females segregated several cream-colored offspring, a color that had never been seen before in...
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