How feather colour reflects its melanin content

By K. McGraw, R. Safran, K. Wakamatsu. 2005

180 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. T. Laaksonen
2. E. Korpimäki
3. K. Wakamatsu
4. J. Fargallo

Citations in the corpus

• A melanin-based trait reflects environmental growth conditions of nestling male Eurasian kestrels (2007, background): “On the contrary, higher concentrations of eumelanin relative to pheomelanin are responsible for grey and black colouration (Haase et al. 1995; Jawor and Breitwisch 2003; McGraw et al. 2005).”