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    and Asian golden cat, suggesting that melanism arose independently at least four times in the cat family. Melanism in leopards is inherited as a Mendelian...
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  • Frequency of melanism appears to be approximately 11% over the leopard's range. Data on the distribution of leopard populations indicates that melanism occurs...
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    Industrial melanism is an evolutionary effect prominent in several arthropods, where dark pigmentation (melanism) has evolved in an environment affected...
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    polygenic result. Melanism with Richardson's ground squirrels is due to recessive genes. With regard to black squirrels and melanism, two major theories...
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    example of industrial melanism. Later, when pollution was reduced, the light-coloured form again predominated. Industrial melanism in the peppered moth...
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  • The Evolution of Melanism: a study of recurring necessity; with special reference to industrial melanism in the Lepidoptera is a 1973 science book by...
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    century. Josef Melan is credited as the inventor of the Melan System, a method for the construction of reinforced bridges. The Melan System differed...
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    experiments have shown that in Biston betularia betularia, the allele for melanism producing morpha carbonaria is controlled by a single locus. The melanic...
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  • is about an orphan girl named Marin Asagi who befriends an alien named Melan Blue. Brigadoon was directed by Yoshitomo Yonetani and the characters were...
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  • Bernard (1973). The Evolution of Melanism: The Study of a Recurring Necessity; with Special Reference to Industrial Melanism in the Lepidoptera. Clarendon...
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    The Tekke of Melan (Albanian: Teqeja e Milanit) is a khanqah (Albanian: tekke) and a famous pilgrimage site of the Bektashi Order of Sufism. It was built...
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  • Melan is a village and a former municipality in the Dibër County, northeastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of...
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  • atmospheric pollution of sulphur dioxide and soot around cities with industrial melanism, a dramatic increase in the frequency of dark forms over the formerly abundant...
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  • Kettlewell's book The Evolution of Melanism. The book contains a very useful summary of Majerus' work on melanism in ladybirds and a review of the peppered...
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    Neoregelia concentrica is a species of bromeliad in the genus Neoregelia. This species is endemic to Brazil. Martinelli, Gustavo; Vieira, Cláudia Magalhães;...
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  • 2004. 'Allelic melanism in American and British peppered moths'. Journal of Heredity 95:97-102. Grant, Bruce. 2003. 'Industrial melanism, vignette 10.3...
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    MLANA (redirect from Melan-A)
    Protein melan-A also known as melanoma antigen recognized by T cells 1 or MART-1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MLANA or "MALENA" gene...
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    hyperpigmentation associated with increased melanin. It can also refer to: Melanism Ocular melanosis Smoker's melanosis Oral melanosis Riehl melanosis Look...
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    Le Castellard-Mélan (before 2010: Le Castellard-Melan) is a commune situated in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. Communes...
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    The Melan Bridge is located in Emma Sater Park on the east side of Rock Rapids, Iowa, United States. The 30-by-16-foot (9.1 by 4.9 m) structure is believed...
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  • investigating how inheritance and the environment affect individuals. Industrial melanism in the peppered moth Biston betularia is a well-known example of the process...
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    Llanfihangel Nant Melan is a small village in Powys, Wales, in the ancient county of Radnorshire. It is around 7 miles (11 km) from the English border...
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    one. Black jaguars have been documented in Central and South America. Melanism in the jaguar is caused by deletions in the melanocortin 1 receptor gene...
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    tropical and hot climate zones have short fur. Several species exhibit melanism with all-black individuals. In the great majority of cat species, the tail...
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  • lack of pigmentation). Black panthers in comparison are the result of melanism. Unlike black panthers, white panthers have not been selectively bred....
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    this gene to perform linkage analysis on 89 domestic cats segregated for melanism. The domestic cat family demonstrated a cosegregation between the ASIP...
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    recorded, most being due to excessive markings (pseudo-melanism or abundism) rather than true melanism; no reports of black lions have ever been substantiated...
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    rarely hatch their own brood. Eggs weigh an average of 45 g (1.6 oz). Melanism Lukasiewicz, Monika (23 August 2014). "Meat quality and the histological...
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    There is also a black color morph of the white-tailed deer which exhibits melanism. While rare in their natural distribution, there is an incidence of up...
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  • ladybirds, but explored these from many different perspectives including melanism, male killers, sexual selection, sexually transmitted diseases, animal...
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