Chemical analysis of melanin pigments in feather germs of Japanese quail Bh (black at hatch) mutants

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 259-265

  Shiojiri, Nobuyoshi ^a   Niwa, Tohru ^a   Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^b   Ito, Shosuke ^b   Nakamura, Akira ^c  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eumelanin; Feathers; Melanocytes; Pheomelanin; Plumage pigmentation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINO 3 HYDROXYPHENYLALANINE; 4-AMINO-3-HYDROXYPHENYLALANINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; EUMELANIN; MELANIN; PHEOMELANIN; PYRROLE 2,3,5 TRICARBOXYLIC ACID; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; PYRROLE-2,3,5-TRICARBOXYLIC ACID; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; COTURNIX; FEATHER; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MOUSE; MUTATION; PIGMENTATION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COTURNIX; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEATHERS; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MELANINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTATION; PIGMENTATION; PYRROLES; TYROSINE;

EID: 0033174809     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1999.tb00759.x     Document Type: Article

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