Issue 76, 2014
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RSC Advances

Elucidation of the chemical composition of avian melanin†

Suet Yi Liu,a   Matthew D. Shawkey,b   Dilworth Parkinson,c   Tyler P. Troya  and  Musahid Ahmed*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
E-mail: mahmed@lbl.gov

b Department of Biology, University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA

c Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

Abstract

Our understanding of the chemical composition of melanin remains limited, due to a paucity of direct measurements. Avian feathers have an unparalleled diversity of melanin-based color mirroring their complex chemistry. Synchrotron-based photoionization mass spectrometry is used to determine the chemical composition of melanin from samples of black, brown, grey and iridescent feathers.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4RA06606E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
03 Jul 2014
Accepted
21 Aug 2014
First published
21 Aug 2014

RSC Adv., 2014,4, 40396-40399

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Elucidation of the chemical composition of avian melanin

S. Y. Liu, M. D. Shawkey, D. Parkinson, T. P. Troy and M. Ahmed, RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 40396 DOI: 10.1039/C4RA06606E

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