Skin melanin is associated with body temperature regulation in humans and mice

• Kale S. Bongers,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9297-9185

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• Santiago Tovar,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GeorgiaUnited States of America

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• Zanthia Wiley,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GeorgiaUnited States of America

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• Michele Sumler,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GeorgiaUnited States of America

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• Nina G. Jablonski,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Adewole S. Adamson,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Dell Medical School, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Sivasubramanium V. Bhavani

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sbhava2@emory.edu

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GeorgiaUnited States of America, Emory Critical Care Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GeorgiaUnited States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9640-6720

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