Ultrastructural and biochemical analysis of epidermal xanthophores and dermal chromatophores of the teleost Sparus aurata

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 383-390

  Ferrer, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chromatophores; Epidermal xanthophores; Teleost skin

Indexed keywords

ISOXANTHOPTERIN; PIGMENT; PTERIDINE DERIVATIVE; PTERIN; QUERCETIN DERIVATIVE; RIBOFLAVIN; XANTHOPTERIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHROMATOPHORE; DERMIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDERMIS CELL; MELANOPHORE; NONHUMAN; SKIN CELL; TELEOST;

EID: 0032924737     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Bagnara J.T. (1983). Developmental aspects of vertebrate chromatophores. Am. Zool. 23, 465-478.
2. Bagnara J.T. and Hadley M.E. (1973). Chromatophores and color change: The comparative physiology of animal pigmentation. Prentice-Hall (ed). Englewood Cliffs. New Jersey.
3. Bagnara J.T., Turner W.A., Rothstein J., Ferris W. and Taylor J.D. (1979). Chromatophore organellogenesis. In: Pigment cell. Klaus S.N. (ed). Karger. Basel, pp 13-27.
4. Bagnara J.T., Kreutzfeld K.L., Fernández T.J. and Cohen A.C. (1988). The presence of pteridine pigments in iridophore reflecting platelets. Pigment Cell Res. 1, 361-365.
5. Blanchard P.D., Angus R.A., Morrison R.L., Frost-Mason S.K. and Sheetz J.H. (1991). Pigments and ultrastructure of pigment cells in Xanthic Sailfin Mollies (Poecilia latipinna). Pigment Cell Res. 4, 240-246.