Linking melanism to brain development: expression of a melanism-related gene in barn owl feather follicles covaries with sleep ontogeny

BACKGROUND: Intra-specific variation in melanocyte pigmentation, common in the animal kingdom, has caught the eye of naturalists and biologists for centuries. In vertebrates, dark, eumelanin pigmentation is often genetically determined and associated with various behavioral and physiological traits,...

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Main Authors: Scriba, Madeleine F, Ducrest, Anne-Lyse, Henry, Isabelle, Vyssotski, Alexei L, Rattenborg, Niels C, Roulin, Alexandre
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2013
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734112/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23886007
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-10-42
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