Sentences with phrase «causing hairlessness»

We have accepted dogs requiring surgery for things like broken bones or cherry eye, and have specifically chosen to rescue puppies with severe cases of demodex (a skin disorder causing hairlessness).

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The allele responsible for the breed's hairlessness also causes the dog's dentition: Hairless Xolos typically have an incomplete set of teeth, unlike most coated dogs that have complete dentition.

Hypovitaminosis A in cats may exhaust vitamin A reserves of the kidneys and liver; affect reproduction to cause stillbirths, congenital anomalies (hydrocephaly, blindness, hairlessness, deafness, ataxia, cerebellar dysplasia, intestinal hernia), and resorption of fetuses; and cause the same changes in epithelial cells noted in other animals.

Whole genome association analysis studies that utilize single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers have been used to identify the molecular causes of various traits and conditions including genetic mutations within breeds that cause coat color variations [15], hairlessness [25] and defects in spinal development [26].