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...

Industrial melanism is an evolutionary effect prominent in several arthropods, where dark pigmentation (melanism) has evolved in an environment affected...

Frequency of melanism appears to be approximately 11% over the leopard's range. Data on the distribution of leopard populations indicates that melanism occurs...

polygenic result. Melanism with Richardson's ground squirrels is due to recessive genes. With regard to black squirrels and melanism, two major theories...

industrial melanism. Later, when pollution was reduced in response to clean air legislation, the light-coloured form again predominated. Industrial melanism in...

The Evolution of Melanism: a study of recurring necessity; with special reference to industrial melanism in the Lepidoptera is a 1973 science book by...

experiments have shown that in Biston betularia betularia, the allele for melanism producing morpha carbonaria is controlled by a single locus. The melanic...

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...

century. Josef Melan is credited as the inventor of the Melan System, a method for the construction of reinforced bridges. The Melan System differed...

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...

Saint Melaine (Latin: Melanius or Mellanus; Breton: Melani; Cornish: Melan; Welsh: Mellon) was a 6th-century Bishop of Rennes in Brittany (now in France)...

2004. 'Allelic melanism in American and British peppered moths'. Journal of Heredity 95:97-102. Grant, Bruce. 2003. 'Industrial melanism, vignette 10.3...

is about an orphan girl named Marin Asagi who befriends an alien named Melan Blue. The series was directed by Yoshitomo Yonetani and the characters were...

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...

Bernard (1973). The Evolution of Melanism: The Study of a Recurring Necessity; with Special Reference to Industrial Melanism in the Lepidoptera. Clarendon...

Le Castellard-Mélan (before 2010: Le Castellard-Melan) is a commune situated in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. Communes...

Neoregelia concentrica is a species of bromeliad in the genus Neoregelia. This species is endemic to Brazil. Martinelli, Gustavo; Vieira, Cláudia Magalhães;...

investigating how inheritance and the environment affect individuals. Industrial melanism in the peppered moth Biston betularia is a well-known example of the process...

hyperpigmentation associated with increased melanin. It can also refer to: Melanism Ocular melanosis Smoker's melanosis Oral melanosis Riehl melanosis Look...

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...

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...

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...

ladybirds, but explored these from many different perspectives including melanism, male killers, sexual selection, sexually transmitted diseases, animal...

experiment in the mid-1950s to study the evolutionary mechanism of industrial melanism in the peppered moth (Biston betularia). It was executed by Bernard Kettlewell...

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...

recorded, most being due to excessive markings (pseudo-melanism or abundism) rather than true melanism; no reports of black lions have ever been substantiated...

lack of pigmentation). Black panthers in comparison are the result of melanism. Unlike black panthers, white panthers have not been selectively bred....

this gene to perform linkage analysis on 89 domestic cats segregated for melanism. The domestic cat family demonstrated a cosegregation between the ASIP...

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...

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...