Zebrafish sparse corresponds to an orthologue of c-kit and is required for the morphogenesis of a subpopulation of melanocytes, but is not essential for hematopoiesis or primordial germ cell development

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 3425-3436

  Parichy, David M ^a   Rawls, John F ^a   Pratt, Stephen J ^a   Whitfield, Tanya T ^b,c   Johnson, Stephen L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^c Developmental Genetics Programme   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; c kit; Cell migration; Danio rerio; Hematopoiesis; Melanocyte; Neural crest; Primordial germ cell

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; HEMATOPOIESIS; MELANOCYTE; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE C KIT; PIGMENTATION; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; HEMATOPOIESIS; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MICE; NEURAL CREST; PHYLOGENY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 0032841827     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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