Direct chemical evidence for eumelanin pigment from the Jurassic period

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 10218-10223

  Glass, Keely ^a   Ito, Shosuke ^b   Wilby, Philip R ^c   Sota, Takayuki ^d   Nakamura, Atsushi ^d   Bowers, C Russell ^e   Vinther, Jakob ^f   Dutta, Suryendu ^g,h   Summons, Roger ^g   Briggs, Derek E G ^f   Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^b   Simon, John D ^a,i  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUMELANIN; INK; MELANIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTTLEFISH; DEGRADATION; JURASSIC; NONHUMAN; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FOSSILS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MELANINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; CEPHALOPODA; FUNGI; SEPIA OFFICINALIS;

EID: 84863001149     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1118448109     Document Type: Article

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