Striking coat colour variation in tuco-tucos (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae): a role for the melanocortin-1 receptor?
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The conservation status of the tuco-tucos, genus Ctenomys (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae), in southern Brazil.
The goal of conservation biology should be related to the preservation of species and also to the evolutionary and ecological processes that were responsible to form them and that are still acting. We review the conservation status of the species of tuco-tuco (Ctenomys torquatus, C. lami, C. minutus, and C. flamarioni) from southern Brazil, and relate these data to the geological history of a p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0024-4066
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01839.x