and Asian golden cat, suggesting that melanism arose independently at least four times in the cat family. Melanism in leopards is inherited as a Mendelian...

Industrial melanism is an evolutionary effect prominent in several arthropods, where dark pigmentation (melanism) has evolved in an environment affected...

Frequency of melanism appears to be approximately 11% over the leopard's range. Data on the distribution of leopard populations indicates that melanism occurs...

industrial melanism. Later, when pollution was reduced in response to clean air legislation, the light-coloured form again predominated. Industrial melanism in...

The Evolution of Melanism: a study of recurring necessity; with special reference to industrial melanism in the Lepidoptera is a 1973 science book by...

polygenic result. Melanism with Richardson's ground squirrels is due to recessive genes. With regard to black squirrels and melanism, two major theories...

experiments have shown that in Biston betularia betularia, the allele for melanism producing morpha carbonaria is controlled by a single locus. The melanic...

century. Josef Melan is credited as the inventor of the Melan System, a method for the construction of reinforced bridges. The Melan System differed...

Kettlewell's book The Evolution of Melanism. The book contains a very useful summary of Majerus' work on melanism in ladybirds and a review of the peppered...

Melan is a village and a former municipality in the Dibër County, northeastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of...