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Nature 181, 1414 - 1415 (17 May 1958); doi:10.1038/1811414a0

A Dominant Felting Lustre Mutant Fleece-type in the Australian Merino Sheep

B. F. SHORT

C.S.I.R.O. Sheep Biology Laboratory, Prospect, New South Wales.

RECENTLY, our attention has been directed at occasional 'aberrant' fleece-types among Australian Merino sheep. This communication refers to a felting lustrous fleece-type of which some twenty-two examples have so far been located.

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