How the Leopard Hides Its Spots: ASIP Mutations and Melanism in Wild Cats

• Alexsandra Schneider ,

  * E-mail: ale-schneider@live.com (AS); eduardo.eizirik@pucrs.br (EE)

  Affiliation Laboratório de Biologia Genômica e Molecular, Faculdade de Biociências, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil

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• Victor A. David,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

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• Warren E. Johnson,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

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• Stephen J. O'Brien,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Informatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

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• Gregory S. Barsh,

  Affiliation HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America

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• Marilyn Menotti-Raymond,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

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• Eduardo Eizirik

  * E-mail: ale-schneider@live.com (AS); eduardo.eizirik@pucrs.br (EE)

  Affiliations Laboratório de Biologia Genômica e Molecular, Faculdade de Biociências, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, Instituto Pró-Carnívoros, Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil

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