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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Lemon Frost

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Lemon Frost leopard geckos are known for their distinctive coloring - and skin tumors. Scientists have now linked the tumors to a gene implicated in human skin cancer.

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L. Guo et al./PLOS Genetics 2021/Steve Sykes

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