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| Title |
Linking melanism to brain development: expression of a melanism-related gene in barn owl feather follicles covaries with sleep ontogeny
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Zoology, July 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1742-9994-10-42 |
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| Authors |
Madeleine F Scriba, Anne-Lyse Ducrest, Isabelle Henry, Alexei L Vyssotski, Niels C Rattenborg, Alexandre Roulin |
| Abstract |
Intra-specific variation in melanocyte pigmentation, common in the animal kingdom, has caught the eye of naturalists and biologists for centuries. In vertebrates, dark, eumelanin pigmentation is often genetically determined and associated with various behavioral and physiological traits, suggesting that the genes involved in melanism have far reaching pleiotropic effects. The mechanisms linking these traits remain poorly understood, and the potential involvement of developmental processes occurring in the brain early in life has not been investigated. We examined the ontogeny of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a state involved in brain development, in a wild population of barn owls (Tyto alba) exhibiting inter-individual variation in melanism and covarying traits. In addition to sleep, we measured melanistic feather spots and the expression of a gene in the feather follicles implicated in melanism (PCSK2). |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2 | 3% |
| Hungary | 1 | 2% |
| Romania | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 59 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 25% |
| Researcher | 9 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 10% |
| Other | 7 | 11% |
| Unknown | 10 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 32 | 51% |
| Psychology | 7 | 11% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 8% |
| Neuroscience | 4 | 6% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 5% |
| Unknown | 11 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 December 2020.
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#3,106,661
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#197
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#27,944
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#4
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