Elemental characterisation of melanin in feathers via synchrotron X-ray imaging and absorption spectroscopy

Melanin is a critical component of biological systems, but the exact chemistry of melanin is still imprecisely known. This is partly due to melanin’s complex heterogeneous nature and partly because many studies use synthetic analogues and/or pigments extracted from their natural biological setting,...

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Autores principales: Edwards, Nicholas P., van Veelen, Arjen, Anné, Jennifer, Manning, Phillip L., Bergmann, Uwe, Sellers, William I., Egerton, Victoria M., Sokaras, Dimosthenis, Alonso-Mori, Roberto, Wakamatsu, Kazumasa, Ito, Shosuke, Wogelius, Roy A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5034265/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27658854
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep34002

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5034265/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27658854
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep34002

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