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<journal-id>2007-3364</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Therya]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Therya]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2007-3364</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Asociación Mexicana de Mastozoología A.C.]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2007-33642017000300261</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.12933/therya-17-503</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Leucism in the three-striped palm squirrel (Funambulus palmarum) at Gudalur Forest Division, Tamil Nadu, Southern India]]></article-title>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Samson]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Arockianathan]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Ramakrishnan]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Balasundaram]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Bargavi]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Subbaiah]]></given-names>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Government Arts College Department of Zoology and Wildlife Biology Mammalogy and Forest Ecology Lab]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[The Nilgiris Tamil Nadu]]></addr-line>
<country>India</country>
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<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Forest College and Research Institute  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>India</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2017</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>8</volume>
<numero>3</numero>
<fpage>261</fpage>
<lpage>262</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2007-33642017000300261&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2007-33642017000300261&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2007-33642017000300261&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Leucism is a condition characterized by the reduction of all skin pigmentation, generally observed in animals. In this note we describe the first known cases of the leucism in the three-striped palm squirrel in the fragmented forest habitat of Gudalur forest division, Tamil Nadu, Southern India.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[El leucismo es una afección caracterizada por la reducción de toda la pigmentación de la piel, generalmente observada en animales. En esta nota describimos los primeros casos conocidos de leucismo en la ardilla de palmera de tres rayas en el hábitat forestal fragmentado de la división de bosques de Gudalur, Tamil Nadu, sur de la India.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Gudalur]]></kwd>
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