Molecular Responses to Catastrophic Molting in a Wild Marine Mammal
While most mammals shed their hair and skin either continuously or seasonally, northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) undergo an annual catastrophic molt, in which they shed their entire fur and underlying skin layer in the span of just three weeks. Due to the energetic and thermoregulato...
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Scholarly Commons
2021
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| Online Access: | https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3745 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4742&context=uop_etds |