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Structural coloration in a fossil feather

Investigation of feathers from the famous Middle Eocene Messel Oil Shale near Darmstadt, Germany shows that they are preserved as arrays of fossilized melanosomes, the surrounding beta-keratin having degraded. The majority of feathers are preserved as aligned rod-shaped eumelanosomes. In some, howev...

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Autores principales: Vinther, Jakob, Briggs, Derek E. G., Clarke, Julia, Mayr, Gerald, Prum, Richard O.
Formato: Artigo
Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: The Royal Society 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2817243/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19710052
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0524
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