How (some) mammals lost their hair.
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Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 36583608.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.84865 and PMC identifier 9803347.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
An approach that allows scientists to identify regions of the genome that evolved faster in hairless mammals reveals candidate genetic mechanisms that gave rise to hairlessness.
Medical subject headings
- Hair
- Mammals