provided for by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture,U.S.Department of Agriculture,MclntireStennis project under accession number MISZ-082100;the National Science Foundation grant number IOS-2037741;prepared under contract with Mississippi State University,PI Scott Rush,with financial support from the Office of Local Defense Community Adjustment,Department of Defense。
A determination of how the color of animal integument is produced is a starting point for investigations into the function and evolution of coloration.The mechanisms that give rise to the color of bare skin of New Wor...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB26000000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41922011,41872016,41688103)。
Various plumage colors are roughly produced by pigment-based colors and structural colors[1,2].Brilliant iridescent plumage colors(in which the color changes depending on the reflectance spectra of sunlight at differe...
Background:Cells of the retinal pigment epithelium(RPE)accumulate different kinds of granules(lipofuscin,melanolipofuscin,melanosomes)within their cell bodies,with lipofuscin and melanolipofuscin being autofluorescent...
Melanosomes, isolated by centrifugal separation from culture broth of B16 melanoma cells derived from mouse, were observed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Some int...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,Ministry of Science and Technology of China,Chinese Academy of Sciences;the UK Natural Environment Research Council,and the UK Royal Society;the research was jointly completed by scientists from the United Kingdom,Ireland and China. Chinese scientists included Zhang Fucheng,Zhou Zhonghe,Xu Xing and Wang Xiaolin from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology,Chinese Academy of Sciences.
An article entitled'Melanosome fossils and the colors of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds'was published in the recent issue of the UK academic journal Nature,introducing two types of Melanosomes found in birds and dinos...
In order to clarify the significance of the aberrant melanosomes in thediagnosis of malignant melanoma,17 cases of malignant melanoma were studied with elec-tron microscopy,and 30 cases of nevus were studied likewise ...