Red Carotenoid Coloration in the Zebra Finch Is Controlled by a Cytochrome P450 Gene Cluster

Current Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1435-1440

  Mundy, Nicholas I ^a   Stapley, Jessica ^b   Bennison, Clair ^b   Tucker, Rachel ^b   Twyman, Hanlu ^a   Kim, Kang Wook ^b   Burke, Terry ^b   Birkhead, Tim R ^b   Andersson, Staffan ^c   Slate, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIAN PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME P450; PIGMENT;

ANIMAL; BEAK; FEMALE; FINCH; GENETICS; HOCK; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; RETINA;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; BEAK; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; FEMALE; FINCHES; MALE; PIGMENTATION; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; RETINA; TARSUS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84975510402     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.047     Document Type: Article

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