Black bib size is associated with feather content of pheomelanin in male house sparrows

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1159-1161

  Galván, Ismael ^a   Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^b   Alonso Alvarez, Carlos ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUMELANIN; PHEOMELANIN; MELANIN; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

FEATHER; LETTER; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PASSER DOMESTICUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PIGMENTATION; SPARROW;

PASSER DOMESTICUS;

ANIMALS; FEATHERS; MALE; MELANINS; PIGMENTATION; PYRROLES; SPARROWS; THIAZOLES;

EID: 84911417258     PISSN: 17551471     EISSN: 1755148X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pcmr.12313     Document Type: Letter

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