Phenotypic rescue of the albino mutation in the medakafish (Oryzias latipes) by a mouse tyrosinase transgene

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 68, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 27-35

  Hyodo Taguchi, Yasuko ^a   Winkler, Christoph ^b   Kurihara, Yuri ^a   Schartl, Angelika ^b   Schartl, Manfred ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Albino; Medaka; Phenotypic rescue; Pigmentation development; Transgenic fish; Tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ALBINISM; ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FISH; GENE MUTATION; MELANOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TRANSGENE;

ALBINISM; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; MALE; MELANINS; MICE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; MUTATION; ORYZIAS; PHENOTYPE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0031437817     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(97)00128-7     Document Type: Article

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