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024a https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/42918432 URI
024a https://doi.org/10.1038/nature128992 DOI
024a https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-67162 URI
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100a Lindgren, Johanu Lund University,Lunds universitet,Berggrundsgeologi,Geologiska institutionen,Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten,Lithosphere and Biosphere Science,Department of Geology,Faculty of Science,Lund University, Sweden4 aut0 (Swepub:lu)geol-jli
2451 0a Skin pigmentation provides evidence of convergent melanism in extinct marine reptiles.
264 c 2014-01-08
264 1b Springer Science and Business Media LLC,c 2014
520 a Throughout the animal kingdom, adaptive colouration serves critical functions ranging from inconspicuous camouflage to ostentatious sexual display, and can provide important information about the environment and biology of a particular organism. The most ubiquitous and abundant pigment, melanin, also has a diverse range of non-visual roles, including thermoregulation in ectotherms. However, little is known about the functional evolution of this important biochrome through deep time, owing to our limited ability to unambiguously identify traces of it in the fossil record. Here we present direct chemical evidence of pigmentation in fossilized skin, from three distantly related marine reptiles: a leatherback turtle, a mosasaur and an ichthyosaur. We demonstrate that dark traces of soft tissue in these fossils are dominated by molecularly preserved eumelanin, in intimate association with fossilized melanosomes. In addition, we suggest that contrary to the countershading of many pelagic animals, at least some ichthyosaurs were uniformly dark-coloured in life. Our analyses expand current knowledge of pigmentation in fossil integument beyond that of feathers, allowing for the reconstruction of colour over much greater ranges of extinct taxa and anatomy. In turn, our results provide evidence of convergent melanism in three disparate lineages of secondarily aquatic tetrapods. Based on extant marine analogues, we propose that the benefits of thermoregulation and/or crypsis are likely to have contributed to this melanisation, with the former having implications for the ability of each group to exploit cold environments.
650 7a NATURVETENSKAPx Fysik0 (SwePub)1032 hsv//swe
650 7a NATURAL SCIENCESx Physical Sciences0 (SwePub)1032 hsv//eng
650 7a NATURVETENSKAPx Fysikx Atom- och molekylfysik och optik0 (SwePub)103022 hsv//swe
650 7a NATURAL SCIENCESx Physical Sciencesx Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics0 (SwePub)103022 hsv//eng
650 7a NATURVETENSKAPx Geovetenskap och miljövetenskapx Geologi0 (SwePub)105042 hsv//swe
650 7a NATURAL SCIENCESx Earth and Related Environmental Sciencesx Geology0 (SwePub)105042 hsv//eng
700a Sjövall, Peteru RISE,SP – Sveriges Tekniska Forskningsinstitut / Funktionella material (KMf)4 aut0 (Swepub:ri)PeterS@ri.se
700a Carney, Ryan Mu Brown University, USA4 aut
700a Uvdal, Peru Lund University,Lunds universitet,Kemisk fysik,Enheten för fysikalisk och teoretisk kemi,Kemiska institutionen,Institutioner vid LTH,Lunds Tekniska Högskola,Chemical Physics,Physical and theoretical chemistry,Department of Chemistry,Departments at LTH,Faculty of Engineering, LTH,Lund University, Sweden4 aut0 (Swepub:lu)chph-puv
700a Gren, Johanu Lund University,Lunds universitet,Berggrundsgeologi,Geologiska institutionen,Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten,Lithosphere and Biosphere Science,Department of Geology,Faculty of Science,Lund University, Sweden4 aut0 (Swepub:lu)geol-jgn
700a Dyke, Garethu University of Southampton, United Kingdom4 aut
700a Schultz, Bo Paghu Muserum, Denmark4 aut
700a Shawkey, Matthew Du University of Akron, USA4 aut
700a Barnes, Kenneth Ru Mosasaur Ranch Museum, USA4 aut
700a Polcyn, Michael Ju Southern Methodist University, USA4 aut
710a Berggrundsgeologib Geologiska institutionen4 org
773t Natured : Springer Science and Business Media LLCg 506:7489, s. 484-484q 506:7489<484-484x 0028-0836x 1476-4687
856u http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature12899y FULLTEXT
8564 8u https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/4291843
8564 8u https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12899
8564 8u https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-6716

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