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

Title
Morphological and Geochemical Evidence of Eumelanin Preservation in the Feathers of the Early Cretaceous Bird, Gansus yumenensis
Authors
Keywords
Feathers, Melanin, Fossils, Geochemistry, Carboxylic acids, Paleobiology, Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, Functional groups
Journal
PLoS One
Volume 6, Issue 10, Pages e25494
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Online
2011-10-14
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0025494

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