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SUBMITTER: Rossi V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731645 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rossi Valentina V McNamara Maria E ME Webb Sam M SM Ito Shosuke S Wakamatsu Kazumasa K
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20190819 36
Recent discoveries of nonintegumentary melanosomes in extant and fossil amphibians offer potential insights into the physiological functions of melanin not directly related to color production, but the phylogenetic distribution and evolutionary history of these internal melanosomes has not been characterized systematically. Here, we present a holistic method to discriminate among melanized tissues by analyzing the anatomical distribution, morphology, and chemistry of melanosomes in various tissu ...[more]