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Hadid, Yarin; Németh, Attila; Snir, Sagi; Pavlíček, Tomáš; Csorba, Gábor; Kázmér, Miklós; Major, Ágnes; Mezhzherin, Sergey; Rusin, Mikhail; Coşkun, Yüksel; Nevo, Eviatar (2012-01-09).
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function. Although blind mole-rats have only atrophied subcutaneous eyes and are sightless, their
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515:Greater blind mole-rat
501:Oltenia blind mole-rat
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