The molecular basis of an avian plumage polymorphism in the wild: A melanocortin-1-receptor point mutation is perfectly associated with the melanic plumage morph of the bananaquit, Coereba flaveola

Emmalize Theron; Kim Hawkins; Eldredge Bermingham; Robert E. Ricklefs; Nicholas I. Mundy

doi:10.1016/S0960-9822(01)00158-0

The molecular basis of an avian plumage polymorphism in the wild: A melanocortin-1-receptor point mutation is perfectly associated with the melanic plumage morph of the bananaquit, Coereba flaveola

Emmalize Theron, Kim Hawkins, Eldredge Bermingham, Robert E. Ricklefs, Nicholas I. Mundy

University of Missouri-St. Louis

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Original language	American English
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0960-9822(01)00158-0
State	Published - Jan 4 2001

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The molecular basis of an avian plumage polymorphism in the wild: A melanocortin-1-receptor point mutation is perfectly associated with the melanic plumage morph of the bananaquit, Coereba flaveola. / Theron, Emmalize; Hawkins, Kim; Bermingham, Eldredge et al.
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