Insights into pigmentary phenomena provided by grafting and chimera formation in the axolotl

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 281-288

  Houillon, Charles ^a   Bagnara, Joseph T ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agouti signaling protein (ASP); Chimeras; Chromatoblasts; Melanization inhibiting factor (MIF); Neural crest; Ovocytes

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI; AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA MEXICANUM; MAMMALIA; MELANOPHORA;

AMBYSTOMA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; FEMALE; GENETICS; GONAD; MELANOPHORE; MUTATION; NEURAL CREST; OOCYTE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPLANTATION;

AMBYSTOMA; ANIMALS; CHIMERA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GONADS; MELANOPHORES; MUTATION; NEURAL CREST; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OVUM; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION;

EID: 0030323012     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1996.tb00119.x     Document Type: Article

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