In cases of this type, melanism is a product of an interaction between genetic factors and the environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a popular anti-ID argument] Reference

Similar to Ecoregion 22k, some species of rodents and reptiles found here have developed abnormally dark coloration, called melanism, for camouflage against the dark lava.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)] Reference

Labels: canine, melanism posted by Chad Arment @ 1: 05 AM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

Mutations occurred randomly, some of which conferred increased melanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a popular anti-ID argument] Reference

In that quote someone posted, Majerus was talking about other kinds of melanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a popular anti-ID argument] Reference

If you definition excludes the peppered moth melanism mutation, fine, but what excludes all of those new genes?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a popular anti-ID argument] Reference

(This happened in the twentieth century, and geneticists argued that the original stock had melanism as a recessive trait.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Majerus argues strongly in his book that industrial melanism in the peppered moth had a point origin by mutation in the 1800s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a popular anti-ID argument] Reference

In heterothermic (cold-blooded) invertebrates, hairiness and melanism (dark pigmentation) enable them to warm up in the summer season.    From Wordnik.com.  [General characteristics of arctic species and their adaptations in the context of changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels] Reference

Howlett & Michael E.N. Majerus, The understanding of industrial melanism in the Peppered moth (Biston betularia) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae), Biol J.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Questions to Ask Your Biology Teacher - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The genetic analysis in this case showed that this melanism was the result of at least three mutational steps uf unequal vale, but all of them dominant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welcome Article on Natural Selection in Peppered Moths - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Some or all members of a population will carry the necessary genes to produce melanism, but these genes are only expressed if triggered by some environmental cue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a popular anti-ID argument] Reference

Of those familiar with the literature, none doubt that bird predation is of primary importance in the changing frequencies of melanism in peppered moths Majerus 1999.    From Wordnik.com.  [DNA and RNA (and Birdnow). - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

While I do not deny that RM+NS could account for industrial melanism of the peppered moth, I really don't see basis for your claim that it "increases the information content of the genome.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a popular anti-ID argument] Reference

What Cothran did not tell you is that there have been dozens of experiments on multiple continents published in peer-reviewed journals that all show moth and butterfly melanism is affected by bird predation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Media Coverage of the AIG Creation Museum - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

But does melanism arise through different molecular mechanisms in different species?.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

We conclude that different molecular mechanisms underlie larval melanism in different species of.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Nachman MW, Hoekstra HE, D'Agostino SL (2003) The genetic basis of adaptive melanism in pocket mice.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

In the Natural History Museum in London there are stuffed examples of albinism and melanism in the lower animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Sargent TD, Millar CD, Lambert DM (1998) The "classical" explanation of industrial melanism: Assessing the evidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

We focused on two genes known to cause melanism in other taxa, Mc1r and its antagonist, the agouti signaling protein (Agouti).    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

There was one black jaguar-skin; melanism is much more common among jaguars than pumas, although once Miller saw a black puma that had been killed by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference

Albinism is caused by a group of inherited genes and squirrels can also be found in pure black which is caused by melanism - the opposite of albinism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Local Guardian | Sutton] Reference

With the thready and piano physical therapy education of cathay palomino as his melanism, rebuilding masdevallia to warder to fudge to genet his rale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

True total melanism is unknown in man, in whom is only observed partial melanism, characterized simply by a pronounced coloration of part of the integument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Eventually I heard of the phenomenon of melanism in animals, less rare in snakes perhaps than in animals of other classes, and I was satisfied that the problem was partly solved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Far Away and Long Ago] Reference

1955, “Selection experiments on industrial melanism in the Lepidoptera,” Heredity 9.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Winter Solstice] Reference

1956, “Further selection experiments on industrial melanism in the Lepidoptera,” Heredity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Winter Solstice] Reference

It’s not clear that there was anything to correct in the case of the peppered moth environmental melanism studies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ann Coulter: Clueless - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Here are some of his comments regarding his concerns about creationists’ misuse of industrial melanism and of Judith Hooper’s charges of fraud against Kettlewell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welcome Article on Natural Selection in Peppered Moths - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Wells still goes around saying that peppered moths don’t rest on tree trunks, and that this invalidates Kettlewell’s data and the predation hypothesis for industrial melanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iconoclasts of Evolution: Haeckel, Behe, Wells & the Ontogeny of a Fraud - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Hence the term, “industrial melanism.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welcome Article on Natural Selection in Peppered Moths - The Panda's Thumb] Reference