Puckett Lab funded by NSF

The Puckett Lab is grateful to the US National Science Foundation (NSF) for funding our proposal to study the genomic basis of adaptive traits in polar bears. We will work with collaborators at the University of Memphis, Stanford University, UC Davis, the Detroit Zoo, and Polar Bears International to understand the genomic changes to skin and hair pigmentation and the causative loci for the hollow hair trait. We also look forward to developing educational materials about polar bear adaptation for zoos.

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