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Do indigenous hairless rats exist

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14y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

The hairless gene is a genetic mutation that occured naturally, and was bred purposefully. There are indigenous rats in some areas that have the hairless gene, but they are rare since natural selection does not favor a rat being hairless.

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