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Evolutionary shifts in the melanin-based color system of birds.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Feb 2016

Eliason Chad M, Shawkey Matthew D, Clarke Julia A

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Melanin pigments contained in organelles (melanosomes) impart earthy colors to feathers. Such melanin-based colors are distributed across birds and thought to be the ancestral color-producing mechanism in birds. However, we have had limited data on melanin-based color and melanosome diversity in Palaeognathae, which includes the flighted tinamous and large-bodied, flightless ratites and is the sister taxon to all...

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PMID: 26767728
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12855

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