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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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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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