This article published in PNAS had also a broad worlwide impact in Media as it brings some really important news on the evolution of the hair. In fact, the study suggests for the first time that hair-keratin were already present in reptilian ancestors of mammals, and therefore hair keratin preceeded the evolution of hairs
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Identification of reptilian genes encoding hair keratin-like proteins suggests a new scenario for the evolutionary origin of hair
ALIBARDI, LORENZO;
2008
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This article published in PNAS had also a broad worlwide impact in Media as it brings some really important news on the evolution of the hair. In fact, the study suggests for the first time that hair-keratin were already present in reptilian ancestors of mammals, and therefore hair keratin preceeded the evolution of hairsI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.