The molecular basis of an avian plumage polymorphism in the wild: A melanocortin-1-receptor point mutation is perfectly associated with the melanic plumage morph of the bananaquit, Coereba flaveola

Current Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 550-557

  Theron, Emmalize ^a   Hawkins, Kim ^a   Bermingham, Eldredge ^b   Ricklefs, Robert E ^c   Mundy, Nicholas I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; COEREBA; COEREBA FLAVEOLA; GALLUS GALLUS; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035901605     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(01)00158-0     Document Type: Article

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