Transgenic Medaka Fish Bearing the Mouse Tyrosinase Gene: Expression and Transmission of the Transgene Following Electroporation of the Orange-Colored Variant

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 168-175

  Ono, Hirotake ^a   Hirose, Euichi ^a,c   Miyazaki, Katsumi ^a,d   Yamamoto, Hiroaki ^b   Matsumoto, Jiro ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell type specific expression; Germ cell transmission; Medaka (Oryzias latipes); Mouse tyrosinase gene; Transgenic fish

Indexed keywords

LATIPES; LEUCOPHORA; MELANOPHORA; ORYZIAS; ORYZIAS LATIPES;

HYBRID PROTEIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; ORYZIAS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; ORYZIAS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TRANSFECTION; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0031156643     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1997.tb00480.x     Document Type: Article

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