nacre encodes a zebrafish microphthalmia-related protein that regulates neural-crest-derived pigment cell fate

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 3757-3767

  Lister, James A ^a   Robertson, Christie P ^a   Lepage, Thierry ^b,d   Johnson, Stephen L ^c   Raible, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

Danio rerio; Melanocyte; microphthalmia; Mitf; nacre; Neural crest; Pigmentation; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; PIGMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; MELANOCYTE; MELANOPHORE; MICROPHTHALMIA; MUTANT; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIGMENT CELL; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, TERMINATOR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MELANOPHORES; MICE; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEURAL CREST; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 0032824044     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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