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- noun A brown
pigment produced bymelanocytes
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Examples
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Melanin comes in TWO delicious flavours: eumelanin, which is dark brown or black, and pheomelanin, which is reddish yellow.
Archive 2009-02-01 The Verger 2009
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Melanin comes in TWO delicious flavours: eumelanin, which is dark brown or black, and pheomelanin, which is reddish yellow.
paraphenylenediamine rhymes with ... The Verger 2009
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You can tell just by looking at your friend that she has high levels of pheomelanin and relatively low levels of the pigment eumelanin.
Wired Top Stories Ken Denmead 2011
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A certain type of plumage coloring, pheomelanin which is a reddish color requires the use of a chemical called glutathione.
Ars Technica John Timmer 2011
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These and most studies on animal pigmentation to date have focused on the melanin system, in which specialized cells known as melanocytes produce either of two pigments-eumelanin or pheomelanin-resulting in different tone and colour of skin, hair and feathers.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Pontus Skoglund et al. 2010
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However, if someone has high levels of pheomelanin, she will have light hair and dark hair if their pheomelanin levels are low.
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Thge varied colors of the iris are a result of the amounts of eumelanin ansd pheomelanin produced by the melanocytes.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Janell.ross 2010
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The achievement of color for blondes and red-head is made possible by pheomelanin.
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High concentration of eumelanin leads to a dark appearance, whereas pheomelanin usually results in a brown or reddish phenotype.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Pontus Skoglund et al. 2010
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In each species, the gene governs coat colour by dictating the balance between production of dark coloured eumelanin and red-yellow coloured pheomelanin.
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