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melanism
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Adaptation
- Industrial melanism
- In cats
- In birds
- In amphibians
- In humans
- Peutz–Jeghers syndrome
- Socio-politics
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
thumb|Black squirrel|Melanistic black [[eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)]] thumb|Melanistic guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) are rare, and are used in rituals by Andean [[curanderos.]]
Melanism is the congenital excess of melanin in an organism resulting in dark pigment.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “melanism” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.