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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