Noun:

ਮੇਲਾਨਿਨ,

melanins's Usage Examples:

melanophores (black/brown): contain black and brown pigments such as the melanins cyanophores (blue): limited taxonomic range but found in some fish and.

colouration of butterfly wings is created by the scales which are pigmented with melanins that give them blacks and browns, but blues, greens, reds and iridescence.

Two types of melanins are used by mammals, such as horses and humans: eumelanin,.

"Sugars in hydrolysates of fungal melanins and soil humic acids".

derive their pigments only from melanins, fish, reptiles and birds rely on a number of pigments apart from melanins: carotenoids, porphyrins, psittacofulvins.

Morphological plasticity, incrustation of the cell wall with melanins and presence of other protective substances.

different types of melanins considering that they are an aggregate of smaller component molecules, such as nitrogen containing melanins.

Melanin produced by plants are sometimes referred to as "catechol melanins" as they can yield catechol on alkali fusion.

Morphological plasticity, incrustation of the cell wall with melanins and presence of other protective substances like carotenoids and mycosporines.

Most feather pigments are melanins (brown and beige pheomelanins, black and grey eumelanins) and carotenoids.

phaeomelanins rather than carotins, and blue coloration is rarely found in this superfamily.

is due to variable amounts of eumelanin (brown/black melanins) and pheomelanin (red/yellow melanins) produced by melanocytes.

The upper cortex of the lichen contains melanins that screen UV and PAR radiation from the photobiont.

Synonyms:

skin, cutis, animal pigment, plumage, tegument, plume, feather,

Antonyms:

dress down, underdress, undercharge, dirty, disarrange,