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Toward Understanding the Repeated Occurrence of Associations between Melanin-Based Coloration and Multiple Phenotypes.
The American naturalist - 1 Aug 2018
San-Jose Luis M, Roulin Alexandre
Abstract excerpt
Melanin is the most widespread pigment in organisms. Melanin-based coloration has been repeatedly observed to be associated with the same traits and in the same direction in different vertebrate and insect species. However, whether any factors that are common to different taxa account for the repeated evolution of melanin-phenotype associations remains unclear. We propose to approach this question from the...
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