Title

Mink are highly polymorphic in terms of coat colour this is one reason why they were so useful as fur animals

Caption

Mink are highly polymorphic in terms of coat colour this is one reason why they were so useful as fur animals, because it was easy for breeders to produce a wide range of colours by selecting for the recessive coat colours in their breeding programmes

Date

Sep 25, 2013

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/David Hosking

Reference

BRK22F09_289

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NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

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53,9Mb (18,0Mb) / 17,7in x 11,8in / 5315 x 3546 (300dpi)

Keywords

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