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IT HAS been observed that sheep which graze in certain regions of the Iberian Peninsula, for example, along the Iberian Cordillera and especially in the Maella zone1,2 to which this work refers, lose their wool progressively (Fig. 1). Histological analysis shows that the folicular bundles separated by loose, very thin and elastic, connective tissue, assume at the beginning a slightly polygonal arrangement. As the alteration advances, they assume first a roundish shape and later an elongated one, until the follicles become completely independent (Fig. 2).
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GONZALEZ, G., GARCIA, J. & FERNANDEZ, E. A Lesion of the Follicle and of the Fibre of Wool and its Possible Relation with an Excess of Iron in the Forage. Nature 184, 559–561 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/184559b0
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