Changes in melanin granules in the fox due to coat color mutations.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a110471

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Changes in melanin granules in the fox due to coat color mutations.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Bradbury M W, Fabricant J D

Abstract excerpt

Hair samples from 11 different coat color phenotypes of the fox (Vulpes vulpes) were examined microscopically to determine the effects of several mutations on melanin granule color and distribution. Standard silver (b/b) causes the production of eumelanin rather than the phaeomelanin produced in...

Topics

Animals
Cytoplasmic Granules
Foxes
Hair Color
Melanins
Melanocytes
Mutation

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