Synchrotron X-ray absorption spectroscopy of melanosomes in vertebrates and cephalopods: implications for the affinity of Tullimonstrum

Screening pigments are essential for vision in animals. Vertebrates use melanins bound in melanosomes as screening pigments, whereas cephalopods are assumed to use ommochromes. Preserved eye melanosomes in the controversial fossil (Mazon Creek, IL, USA) are partitioned by size and/or shape into dist...

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Published in:Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences Biological sciences, 2019-10, Vol.286 (1913), p.20191649
Main Authors: Rogers, Christopher S, Astrop, Timothy I, Webb, Samuel M, Ito, Shosuke, Wakamatsu, Kazumasa, McNamara, Maria E
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Animals
BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Biological Evolution
Cephalopoda
fossil soft tissues
Fossils
Konservat-Lagerstätten
Melanins
Melanosomes
Palaeobiology
Phylogeny
Pigmentation
Synchrotrons
trace metals
Vertebrates
X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
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BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Biological Evolution
Cephalopoda
fossil soft tissues
Fossils
Konservat-Lagerstätten
Melanins
Melanosomes
Palaeobiology
Phylogeny
Pigmentation
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X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
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