Interpreting melanin-based coloration through deep time: a critical review

A guide to the field of palaeo colour

(2015) Jakob Vinther   BIOESSAYS

Ancient biomolecules: Their origins, fossilization, and role in revealing the history of life

(2014) Derek E. G. Briggs et al.   BIOESSAYS

Skin pigmentation provides evidence of convergent melanism in extinct marine reptiles

(2014) Johan Lindgren et al.   NATURE

Melanosome evolution indicates a key physiological shift within feathered dinosaurs

(2014) Quanguo Li et al.   NATURE

Pigments through time

(2014) Nicholas P. Edwards et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

Support and challenges to the melanosomal casing model based on nanoscale distribution of metals within iris melanosomes detected by X-ray fluorescence analysis

(2014) Thomas Gorniak et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

Evolutionary and biomedical consequences of internal melanins

(2014) Sylvain Dubey et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

Melanin from the Nitrogen-Fixing Bacterium Azotobacter chroococcum: A Spectroscopic Characterization

(2014) Aulie Banerjee et al.   PLoS One

The structure of fossil fungal spores based on the results of ion etching

(2014) L. Ya. Kizil’shtein et al.   Solid Fuel Chemistry

Elucidation of the chemical composition of avian melanin

(2014) Suet Yi Liu et al.   RSC Advances

Melanosomes or Microbes: Testing an Alternative Hypothesis for the Origin of Microbodies in Fossil Feathers

(2014) Alison E. Moyer et al.   Scientific Reports

Bacteria or melanosomes? A geochemical analysis of micro-bodies on a tadpole from the Oligocene Enspel Formation of Germany

(2014) Holly E. Barden et al.   Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

Direct chemical evidence for eumelanin pigment from the Jurassic period

(2012) K. Glass et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reconstruction ofMicroraptorand the Evolution of Iridescent Plumage

(2012) Quanguo Li et al.   SCIENCE

The preservation and degradation of filamentous bacteria and biomolecules within iron oxide deposits at Rio Tinto, Spain

(2011) L. J. PRESTON et al.   Geobiology

Ectomycorrhizas from a Lower Eocene angiosperm forest

(2011) Christina Beimforde et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

FEATHERS OF THE INGERSOLL SHALE, EUTAW FORMATION (UPPER CRETACEOUS), EASTERN ALABAMA: THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF FEATHERS FROM NORTH AMERICAN MESOZOIC ROCKS

(2011) T. K. KNIGHT et al.   PALAIOS

Morphological and Geochemical Evidence of Eumelanin Preservation in the Feathers of the Early Cretaceous Bird, Gansus yumenensis

(2011) Holly E. Barden et al.   PLoS One

Trace Metals as Biomarkers for Eumelanin Pigment in the Fossil Record

(2011) R. A. Wogelius et al.   SCIENCE

The Red and the Black

(2010) John D. Simon et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Fossilized melanosomes and the colour of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds

(2010) Fucheng Zhang et al.   NATURE

Fossil Evidence for Evolution of the Shape and Color of Penguin Feathers

(2010) J. A. Clarke et al.   SCIENCE

Plumage Color Patterns of an Extinct Dinosaur

(2010) Q. Li et al.   SCIENCE

Soft X-ray spectromicroscopy of nickel sorption in a natural river biofilm

(2009) A. P. HITCHCOCK et al.   Geobiology

Micro-FTIR spectroscopic signatures of Bacterial lipids in Proterozoic microfossils

(2009) Motoko Igisu et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Melanogenesis in dermal melanocytes of Japanese Silky chicken embryos

(2009) C.F. Ortolani-Machado et al.   TISSUE & CELL

The colour of fossil feathers

(2008) J. Vinther et al.   Biology Letters