The Evolution of Melanism: a study of recurring necessity; with special reference to industrial melanism in the Lepidoptera is a 1973 science book by...
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Kettlewell, Bernard (1973). The Evolution of Melanism. Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-857370-7. Majerus, Michael (1998). Melanism: Evolution in Action. Oxford University...
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pollution during the Industrial Revolution. The frequency of dark-coloured moths increased at that time, an example of industrial melanism. Later, when pollution...
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Melanism: Evolution in Action (ISBN 0-19-854982-2) is a book by Dr. Mike Majerus, published in 1998. It is an update of Bernard Kettlewell's book The...
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Industrial melanism is an evolutionary effect prominent in several arthropods, where dark pigmentation (melanism) has evolved in an environment affected...
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E. B. Ford (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
on the evolution of melanism in the peppered moth, Biston betularia. The entomologist Michael Majerus discussed criticisms that had been made of Kettlewell's...
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black jaguars in South America. Melanism is caused by a recessive allele in the leopard, and by a dominant allele in the jaguar. In 1788, Jean-Claude Delamétherie...
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Peppered moth (category Moths of Asia)
explanation of the phenomenon. The evolution of the industrial melanism mutation has been shown to be due to the insertion of a transposable element into the first...
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2010). "Insularity and the evolution of melanism, sexual dichromatism and body size in the worldwide-distributed barn owl". Journal of Evolutionary Biology...
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