of, characteristic of, or having melanism or melanosis
Examples of 'melanic' in a sentence
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The melanic variant showed greater susceptibility to infection and a higher mortality rate.
SM. Allegretti, JF. Carvalho, LA. Magalhães, EM. Zanotti-Magalhães 2009, 'Behaviour of albino and melanic variants of Biomphalaria glabrata Say, 1818 (Mollusca:Planorbidae) following infection by Schistosoma mansoni Sambon, 1907 Comportamentode Biomphalaria glabrata variantes albina e melânica frente à infecção pelo Schistosomamansoni', Brazilian Journal of Biologyhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842009000100029. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Two key genes (laccase2 and yellow) involved in melanin formation were significantly up-regulated in melanic individuals.
Songzhen He, Xiaoling Tong, Kunpeng Lu, Yaru Lu, Jiangwen Luo, Wenhao Yang, Min Chen,Min-jin Han, Hai Hu, Cheng Lu, Fangyin Dai 2016, 'Comparative Analysis of Transcriptomes among Bombyx mori Strains and Sexes Revealsthe Genes Regulating Melanic Morph and the Related Phenotypes', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0155061. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
However, we observed no substitutions that were common to all melanic individuals across the two species.
Joana M. Buades, Virginia Rodríguez, Bàrbara Terrasa, Valentin Pérez-Mellado, RichardP. Brown, Jose A. Castro, Antònia Picornell, M. M. Ramon 2013, 'Variability of the mc1r Gene in Melanic and Non-Melanic Podarcis lilfordi and Podarcispityusensis from the Balearic Archipelago', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0053088. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The results showed that a greater number of melanic morphs occurred if the photoperiodwas extremely long.
Haichen Yin, Qihao Shi, Muhammad Shakeel, Jing Kuang, Jianhong Li 2016, 'The environmental plasticity of diverse body color caused by extremely long photoperiodsand high temperature in Saccharosydne procerus (Homoptera: Delphacidae)', Frontiers in Physiologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2016.00401/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Overall, lakes with red males exhibit stronger color-immune covariance while melanic male populations exhibit weak if any color-immune associations.
Daniel I. Bolnick, Kum Chuan Shim, Matthew Schmerer, Chad D. Brock 2015, 'Population-Specific Covariation between Immune Function and Color of Nesting MaleThreespine Stickleback', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0126000. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Here, we examined whether specific substitutions were associated with the melanic colouration found in islet populations of these species.
Joana M. Buades, Virginia Rodríguez, Bàrbara Terrasa, Valentin Pérez-Mellado, RichardP. Brown, Jose A. Castro, Antònia Picornell, M. M. Ramon 2013, 'Variability of the mc1r Gene in Melanic and Non-Melanic Podarcis lilfordi and Podarcispityusensis from the Balearic Archipelago', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0053088. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Our analysis resulted in the identification of 59 unique differentially expressed genes in the melanic mutant.
Songzhen He, Xiaoling Tong, Kunpeng Lu, Yaru Lu, Jiangwen Luo, Wenhao Yang, Min Chen,Min-Jin Han, Hai Hu, Cheng Lu, Fangyin Dai 2016, 'Comparative Analysis of Transcriptomes among Bombyx mori Strains and Sexes Revealsthe Genes Regulating Melanic Morph and the Related Phenotypes.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4859508?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Additional non-melanic pigments in yellow hair cannot be excluded but need other techniques to be detected.
Carlo Polidori, Alberto Jorge, Concepción Ornosa 2017, 'Eumelanin and pheomelanin are predominant pigments in bumblebee (Apidae: Bombus) pubescence',PeerJhttps://peerj.com/articles/3300.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Melanic pigmentation results from melanin produced by the melanocytes present in the basal layer of the oral epithelium.
Luis Silva Monteiro, José Adriano Costa, Marco Infante da Câmara, Rui Albuquerque,Marco Martins, José Júlio Pacheco, Filomena Salazar, Fernando Figueira 2015, 'Aesthetic Depigmentation of Gingival Smoker's Melanosis Using Carbon Dioxide Lasers',Case Reports in Dentistryhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/510589. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)