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PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY
Volume 88, Issue 3, Pages 352-355Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/680362
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- Ramon y Cajal Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
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Knowledge of melanin chemistry has important implications for the study of the evolutionary ecology of animal pigmentation, but the actual chemical diversity of these widely expressed biological pigments has been largely overlooked. Considering all melanin forms and the different conditions of endogenous oxidative stress during their synthesis provides information about physiological costs and benefits of different pigmentation patterns and opens a new perspective to understanding the evolution of color phenotypes in animals.
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