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A blue variant in the rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss Walbaum.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Blanc J M, Poisson Huguette, Quillet Edwige
Abstract excerpt
A blue variant of the rainbow trout, which appeared in a French fish farm, displayed an iridescent body color that was cobalt blue on the back, lighter on the undersides, and silvery on the belly and which held up to adult stage. This color was supposed to result from a Tyndall effect involving a structural arrangement of melanin pigments because it disappeared when it was associated with a depigmenting gene....
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