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HITHERTO most work on the photoperiodic behaviour of mammals has been related to their reproductive cycles1,2. Hammond, jun.3, working with mink, was able to demonstrate an effect on the onset of moulting (correlated with new and more rapid growth of hair), when the animals were responding to photoperiodic stimulation by coming into œstrus.
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Yeates, N. M. T., J. Agric. Sci., 39, 1 (1949).
Hart, D. S., J. Agric. Sci., 40, 143 (1950).
Hammond, jun., J., Nature, 167, 150 (1951).
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HART, D. Additional Photoperiodic Response in Sheep. Nature 171, 133–134 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171133a0
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