{"id":693,"date":"2024-11-07T14:19:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T01:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/?p=693"},"modified":"2024-11-07T14:19:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T01:19:11","slug":"keith-comments-on-new-science-article-about-why-are-parrots-so-colorful-study-points-to-simple-chemical-tweak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/keith-comments-on-new-science-article-about-why-are-parrots-so-colorful-study-points-to-simple-chemical-tweak\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith comments on new Science article about: Why are parrots so colorful? Study points to simple chemical tweak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keith recently contributed to a discussion about a paper in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/why-are-parrots-so-colorful-study-points-simple-chemical-tweak\">Science<\/a> about parrot feather colors.\u00a0 The Gordon group did some work in this area.\u00a0 We used resonance Raman spectroscopy to establish the frequency dispersion of the dyes, called psittacofulvins (<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1098\/rsos.172010\"><em>R.Soc.Open Sci.<\/em> 5\u00a0 (2018) 172010<\/a> and\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.saa.2021.120146\"><em>Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy<\/em> 262 (2021) 120146<\/a>) , being able to characterize their electronic structure.\u00a0 The Science paper (<span class=\"hlFld-ContribAuthor\">Roberto Arbore\u00a0<em>et al. <\/em><\/span><span class=\"ml-1\">A molecular mechanism for bright color variation in parrots.<\/span><span class=\"ml-1\"><i>Science<\/i><\/span><span class=\"ml-1\"><b>386<\/b>,<\/span><span class=\"ml-1\">eadp7710<\/span><span class=\"ml-1\">(2024).<\/span><span class=\"ml-1\">DOI:<a class=\"ml-1\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.adp7710\">10.1126\/science.adp7710<\/a><\/span>) goes beyond that in mapping out the genetics of the differing species and relating that back to the color.\u00a0 Very simple oxidative mechanisms are used to change pigment color.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2024\/11\/parrots-dispersion1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-694\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2024\/11\/parrots-dispersion1-1024x382.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2024\/11\/parrots-dispersion1-1024x382.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2024\/11\/parrots-dispersion1-300x112.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2024\/11\/parrots-dispersion1-768x287.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2024\/11\/parrots-dispersion1-1536x573.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2024\/11\/parrots-dispersion1-500x187.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2024\/11\/parrots-dispersion1.png 1795w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Data from <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1098\/rsos.172010\"><em>R.Soc.Open Sci.<\/em> 5\u00a0 (2018) 172010<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith recently contributed to a discussion about a paper in Science about parrot feather colors.\u00a0 The Gordon group did some work in this area.\u00a0 We used resonance Raman spectroscopy to establish the frequency dispersion of the dyes, called psittacofulvins (R.Soc.Open Sci. 5\u00a0 (2018) 172010 and\u00a0 Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 262 (2021) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}