Re: Repost [colour]

[NEIL CLARK <NCLARK@museum.gla.ac.uk>]

Reposted from a message I received today:

> Heather and I wrote a paper describing the identification of the
> carotenoprotein (both protein and carotenoid portion identified)  in 
red
> brachs.
> Two references on the preservation of colour in fossils are as 
follows:
 
> Cusack, M., Curry, G.B., Clegg, H. & Abbott, G. (1992) Comp. 
Biochem.
> Physiol. 102B 93-95
> 'An intracrystalline chromoprotein from red brachiopod shells: 
implications
> for the process of biomineralization.'
> 
> Curry, G. (1991) New Scientist 132 (No 1795) (16 November 1991) 
'Fossils in
> colour'

> [Gordon Curry is] also writing something on fossil colour due to 
appear
> quite shortly in the BBC Wildlife Magazine.
> 
> 

Neil