The evolution of eu- and pheomelanic traits may respond to an economy of pigments related to environmental oxidative stress

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 339-342

  Galván, Ismael ^a   Solano, Francisco ^b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI PROTEIN; EUMELANIN; GLUTATHIONE; INTERMEDIN; MELANIN; MELANOCORTIN; PHEOMELANIN;

DNA DAMAGE; GENE MUTATION; LETTER; MELANOGENESIS; MELANOSOME; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MELANINS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PIGMENTATION;

EID: 65549106436     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2009.00559.x     Document Type: Letter

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