Skin pigmentation provides evidence of convergent melanism in extinct marine reptiles

Reptiles Produce Pheomelanin: Evidence in the Eastern Hermann's Tortoise (Eurotestudo boettgeri)

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The taphonomy of colour in fossil insects and feathers

(2013) Maria E. McNamara   PALAEONTOLOGY

Soft tissue preservation in a fossil marine lizard with a bilobed tail fin

(2013) Johan Lindgren et al.   Nature Communications

Whales Use Distinct Strategies to Counteract Solar Ultraviolet Radiation

(2013) Laura M. Martinez-Levasseur et al.   Scientific Reports

Bone histology of aquatic reptiles: what does it tell us about secondary adaptation to an aquatic life?

(2012) Alexandra Houssaye   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Molecular preservation of the pigment melanin in fossil melanosomes

(2012) Johan Lindgren et al.   Nature Communications

Using Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry to Study Biomarkers

(2011) Volker Thiel et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

The functional significance of colouration in cetaceans

(2011) Tim Caro et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Behaviour and Physiology: The Thermal Strategy of Leatherback Turtles

(2010) Brian L. Bostrom et al.   PLoS One

Regulation of Body Temperature by Some Mesozoic Marine Reptiles

(2010) A. Bernard et al.   SCIENCE

Plumage Color Patterns of an Extinct Dinosaur

(2010) Q. Li et al.   SCIENCE

Vertebrate pigmentation: from underlying genes to adaptive function

(2010) Joanna K. Hubbard et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Skin of the Cretaceous mosasaur Plotosaurus: implications for aquatic adaptations in giant marine reptiles

(2009) J. Lindgren et al.   Biology Letters

Thermal benefits of melanism in cordylid lizards: a theoretical and field test

(2009) Susana Clusella-Trullas et al.   ECOLOGY

Pleiotropy in the melanocortin system, coloration and behavioural syndromes

(2008) A DUCREST et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION