The Tyrosinase Gene from Medakafish: Transgenic Expression Rescues Albino Mutation

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 283-290

  Inagaki, Hidehito ^a,b   Koga, Akihiko ^a   Bessho, Yoshitaka ^a   Hori, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Albino; Medaka; Micro satellite; Oryzias latipes; Transgenic fish; Tyrosinase gene

Indexed keywords

MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ALBINISM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORYZIAS; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ALBINISM; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; MUTATION; ORYZIAS; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032176033     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1998.tb00737.x     Document Type: Article

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