Spiny mice modulate eumelanin to pheomelanin ratio to achieve cryptic coloration in "Evolution Canyon," Israel

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Singaravelan, Natarajan ^a   Pavlicek, Tomas ^a   Beharav, Alex ^a   Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^b   Ito, Shosuke ^b   Nevo, Eviatar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUMELANIN; PHEOMELANIN; MELANIN;

ACOMYS CAHIRINUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HAIR ANALYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISRAEL; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; RODENT; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HAIR COLOR; METABOLISM; MURINAE;

ACOMYS; ACOMYS CAHIRINUS; ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; HAIR COLOR; ISRAEL; MELANINS; MURINAE;

EID: 77649257197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008708     Document Type: Article

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