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An unexpected advantage of whiteness in horses: the most horsefly-proof horse has a depolarizing white coat

White horses frequently suffer from malign skin cancer and visual deficiencies owing to their high sensitivity to the ultraviolet solar radiation. Furthermore, in the wild, white horses suffer a larger predation risk than dark individuals because they can more easily be detected. In spite of their g...

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Auteurs principaux: Horváth, Gábor, Blahó, Miklós, Kriska, György, Hegedüs, Ramón, Gerics, Balázs, Farkas, Róbert, Åkesson, Susanne
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: The Royal Society 2010
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871857/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20129982
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.2202
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