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Researcher studies link between genes, climate and hibernation

By: By Alexandra Sieh, Rocky Mountain Collegian; SOURCE: Colorado State U. Dateline: FORT COLLINS, Colo.
Date: February 19, 2008
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Summary

Over the past three years, a CSU professor working with Pennsylvania State University researchers to discover reasons behind hibernation patterns in small mammals found a possible link to climate change. After years of small mammal hibernation research at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, CS

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