41. Recent research suggests that melanin may serve a protective role other than photoprotection. 42. Central heterochromia appears to be prevalent in irises containing low amounts of melanin . 43. Melanin granules inside the neurons of the LC contribute to its blue color.44. Coat color alleles affect melanin , the pigment or coloring of the coat. 45. Melanin is another well-known UV-protector.46. Melanin comes from Vvitor 07 : 52, 17 May 2007 ( UTC)47. May make skin whiter color by inhibition on tyrosinase-dependent melanin biosynthesis. 48. They are divided into Melanins and the Lipochromes classes. 49. Why are there no horses with nonfunctioning melanocytes and a lack of melanin ? 50. Such phenotypes result mostly from single mutations associated with absence of melanin deposition.
