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New Semi-dominant Mutation in the Syrian Hamster
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New Semi-dominant Mutation in the Syrian Hamster

  • M. F. W. FESTING1 &
  • M. K. WRIGHT2 

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SEVERAL different mutations causing hypotrichosis are well known in both rats and mice1,2 but none have so far been described in the hamster.

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  1. MRC Laboratory Animals Centre, Woodmansterne Road, Carshalton, Surrey

    M. F. W. FESTING

  2. The Beeches, Latchingdon, Chelmsford, Essex

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FESTING, M., WRIGHT, M. New Semi-dominant Mutation in the Syrian Hamster. Nature 236, 81–82 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/236081a0

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