pelage

Pelage of the captured specimens was brown from dorsal side while it was paler from ventral side.

However, like the mountain hare, the change occurs as winter advances and reverts to normal pelage as spring returns.

We found that genetic HHcy significantly increased the accumulation of Hcy-keratin and S-Hcy-keratin in mouse pelage. In hair from [Cbs.sup.-/-], [Cse.sup.-/-], or [Mthfr.sup.-/-] mice, Hcy-keratin was elevated 11.7-, 6.3-, and 3.5-fold, respectively; S-Hcy-keratin was elevated 15-, 5.4-, or 2.0-fold, respectively (Table 3).

In this group, tail rigidity, mild postural changes, and reduction in pelage condition were noted from day four.

Winter pelage colour in snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) from the Pacific Northwest.

Pelage color of round-tailed ground squirrels allow them to blend with the light desert soils on which they live, making them difficult to detect visually unless they run.

microtis by its pale ventral pelage (Simmons and Voss 1998; Simmons et al.

Using ultrasound, Walker and Pelage [15] also reported a statistically significant effect on both uterine and dominant fibroid volumes (p = 0.0001) in 400 women with symptomatic fibroids on follow-up at 16.7 months.

However, all wild Red Fox populations exhibit variable morphological characteristics, both between and within standard color-phases (red, cross, and silver); consequently, distinguishing native from nonnative Red Foxes based on coat color is very difficult, although subtle differences in red-phase pelage color between the groups do occur (Bailey 1936).

In Brazilian free-tailed bats, Tadarida brasiliensis, sexual dimorphism exists in dental features (Herreid, 1959), the pelvic skeleton (Crelin and Newton, 1969), and some wing measurements and body mass (Lowery, 1974; Hunter, 2001), although there is no physical difference in pelage feature (Nason, 1948).

Regarding L*, the winter pelage slopes are much less pronounced than the summer ones, which are steeply negative, but the opposite is observed for a*, the summer pelage slopes being zero or slightly positive.

Although billies often have a slight yellowish cast--and just as often are stained gray from talus slopes--the Rocky Mountain goat is pure white in pelage, with black hooves, black nose, and short, needle-sharp black horns.

The distance between the camera and bait allowed for full-body photographs of cats to be taken while still being close enough to detect pelage characteristics.

In addition to attempts to distinguish wildcats from domestic cats and their hybrids based on morphological characteristics such as pelage (coat) patterns, body measurements, gut lengths and skulls characteristics (Daniels et al., 1998; Kilshaw et al., 2010; Kitchener et al., 2005; Schauenberg, 1977; Yamaguchi et al., 2004), scientists are increasingly turning to advanced genetic analyses of both mtDNA and nuclear microsatellites (Beaumont et al., 2001; Driscoll et al., 2007; Kilshaw et al., 2010; O'Brien et al., 2009; Oliveira et al., 2008a, 2008b).

Pelage JP, Soyer P, Repiquet D, Herbreteau D, Le Dref O, Houdart E, et al.