Michelle Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
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>We had two black gerbils, sisters, who developed hand tumors. The vet
>removed the tumor and in one case, the finger with it, and that was it.
>
The first mention of the black mutation in gerbils was in a paper
describing melanoma on the hands.
MALIGNANT MELANOMA IN A BLACK GERBIL (MERIONES UNGUICULATUS).: Cramlet,
S.H., Toft II, J.D. & Olsen, N.W, 1974, Laboratory Animal Science, 24,
545-547
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Julian
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National Gerbil Society
http://www.gerbils.co.uk/
