Morphological and geochemical evidence of eumelanin preservation in the feathers of the Early Cretaceous bird, Gansus yumenensis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Barden, Holly E ^a   Wogelius, Roy A ^a   Li, Daqing ^b   Manning, Phillip L ^a,c   Edwards, Nicholas P ^a   van Dongen, Bart E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Gansu Geological Museum   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC COMPOUND; CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; EUMELANIN; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; KETONE DERIVATIVE; MELANIN; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FEATHER; GANSUS YUMENENSIS; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MELANOSOME; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PYROLYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CUTTLEFISH; FOSSIL; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECTROMETRY; TEMPERATURE; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AVES;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEATHERS; FOSSILS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MELANINS; MELANOSOMES; SEPIA; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80054088420     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025494     Document Type: Article

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