Quantitative variation of melanins in alpaca (Lama pacos L.)

Italian Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 159-160

  Cecchi, Teresa ^a   Valbonesi, Alessandro ^a   Passamonti, Paolo ^a   Gonzales, Martin ^b   Antonini, Marco ^a   Renieri, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b DESCOSUR   (Peru)

Author keywords

Alpaca; Spectrophotometric alkali soluble melanin; Spectrophotometric eumelanin; Spectrophotometric pheomelanin; Spectrophotometric total melanin

Indexed keywords

LAMA PACOS;

EID: 80051770612     PISSN: 15944077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/ijas.2011.e30     Document Type: Article

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