Introgression drives repeated evolution of winter coat color polymorphism in hares

Changing from summer-brown to winter-white pelage or plumage is a crucial adaptation to seasonal snow in more than 20 mammal and bird species. Many of these species maintain nonwhite winter morphs, locally adapted to less snowy conditions, which may have evolved independently. Mountain hares (Lepus...

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Published in:Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Main Authors: Giska, Iwona, Farelo, Liliana, Pimenta, João, Seixas, Fernando A., Ferreira, Mafalda S., Marques, João P., Miranda, Inês, Letty, Jérôme, Jenny, Hannes, Hackländer, Klaus, Magnussen, Eyðfinn, Melo-Ferreira, José
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2019
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Biological Sciences
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6883779/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31712446
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910471116
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