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SUBMITTER: Hill GE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6784716 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hill Geoffrey E GE Hood Wendy R WR Ge Zhiyuan Z Grinter Rhys R Greening Chris C Johnson James D JD Park Noel R NR Taylor Halie A HA Andreasen Victoria A VA Powers Matthew J MJ Justyn Nicholas M NM Parry Hailey A HA Kavazis Andreas N AN Zhang Yufeng Y
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20190925 1911
Carotenoid coloration is widely recognized as a signal of individual condition in various animals, but despite decades of study, the mechanisms that link carotenoid coloration to condition remain unresolved. Most birds with red feathers convert yellow dietary carotenoids to red carotenoids in an oxidation process requiring the gene encoding the putative cytochrome P450 enzyme CYP2J19. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the process of carotenoid oxidation and feather pigmentation is functionally ...[more]